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Harmlessness

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Released
  
September 25, 2015

Release date
  
25 September 2015

Genres
  
Emo, Post-rock

Length
  
61:03

Label
  
Epitaph Records

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Artist
  
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die

Post-rock albums
  
Whenever - If Ever, Asunder - Sweet and Other Dist, Atheist's Cornea, Soul Machine, Let Us Garlands Bring

The world is a beautiful place i am no longer afraid to die harmlessness 2015


Harmlessness is the second studio album by emo band The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die. It was announced on August 4, 2015, and was released on September 25. The title of the album is a play on the name of the band's first EP, Formlessness.

Contents

The world is a beautiful place i am no longer afraid to die you can t live there forever


Reception

Harmlessness charted at number 11 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, and at number 46 on the Independent Albums chart. Upon release, the album received critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from specialized critics, the album received an average score of 84, based on 6 reviews. Stereogum placed the album at number 13 on their top 50 albums of 2015 list. James of Stereogum wrote: "It's not the kind of music that will change the world, but it might just change your life." Aaron Mook of Absolutepunk.net wrote: "Harmlessness is ambitious and intimidating in scope; it is not an easy listen, but with the right amount of time and dedication, it is easily one of the most rewarding listens of 2015."

Track listing

All music composed by The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die.

Personnel

The lineup for this album is:

  • David Bello – vocals
  • Josh Cyr – bass, acoustic guitar
  • Derrick Shanholtzer-Dvorak – electric and acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Steven Buttery – drums
  • Chris Teti – production, engineering, mixing, electric and acoustic guitar, percussion
  • Tyler Bussey – electric and acoustic guitar, banjo, pocket synth
  • Katie Shanholtzer-Dvorak – keyboards, vocals
  • Greg Horbal – brought a dog
  • Nick Kwas – violin, vocals
  • Songs

    1You Can't Live There Forever4:02
    2blank #111:09
    3January 10th - 20145:39

    References

    Harmlessness Wikipedia