The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating

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The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating is the forthcoming sixth album by Australian rock band The Living End, to be released on 22 July 2011.

Composition and recording

In early 2010, Chris Cheney went to New York for three months to begin writing songs for the album. While in New York, he met up with The Hold Steady singer Craig Finn. With Finn, he cowrote the song "The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating".

Later in the year, the band regrouped to begin rehearsals in a South Melbourne recording studio. The band performed as The Safety Matches to road test new material. Cheney said that they had performed "a week's worth of gigs playing only new songs to see which ones would sink or swim. They then went into the studio to record the album.

Cheney said that the album took "like a year and a half of writing" and that they always seem to "go through 30-40 songs" in rehearsal. He said that during writing the album they had "amassed something in the vicinity of 40-plus songs to choose from".

Recording of the album, with Nick DiDia, who came out from Atlanta to produce the album, was completed in May 2011 after which it was sent to Brendan O'Brien for mixing.

Music and lyrics

Chris Cheney has said that for the album, the "aim has been to construct something more direct, simple and therefore tougher and bigger sounding than anything we’ve done before." He also said that the band "spent a lot of time experimenting with the parts of the songs to achieve this. Also and most importantly this will be an album, not just a bunch of songs."

Release and reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Rolling Stone

The title track and lead single was premiered on triple J Breakfast on 3 June 2011. The single was then made available to stream on the band's official website. "Machine Gun" was also made available to download via the band's Facebook page.

The album received four and a half stars from Rolling Stone magazine, saying it would "be fitting if this became the Living End's defining record".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Chris Cheney, except where noted

No.	Title	Length
1.	"In The Morning"
2.	"Heatwave"
3.	"Machine Gun"	3:29
4.	"For Another Day"
5.	"Song For The Lonely"
6.	"Ride The Wave Boy"
7.	"Resist"
8.	"Away from the City"
9.	"United"
10.	"Universe"
11.	"The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating" (Cheney/Craig Finn)

iTunes Edition

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Do You Remember "

Singles

• "The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating"

Personnel

• Chris Cheney – vocals, guitar
• Scott Owen – double bass, backing vocals
• Andy Strachan – drums, backing vocals
• Nick DiDia – producer
• Brendan O'Brien – mixing

Tour

The Ending is Just the Beginning Repeating Tour 2011

Date	City	Country	Venue
2 September	Brisbane	Australia	The Tivoli
3 September	Sydney		Enmore Theatre
7 September	Canberra		ANU Bar
8 September	Melbourne		Palace Theatre
10 September	Adelaide		Thebarton Theatre
16 September	Perth		Metro City