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Released
  
November 8, 2011

Artist
  
Four Year Strong

Producer
  
David Bendeth

Length
  
40:55

Release date
  
8 November 2011

Label
  
Island Records

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Recorded
  
June–August 2011 at House of Loud, Elmwood Park, New Jersey, U.S.

In Some Way, Shape or Form (2011)
  
Go Down in History (2014)

Genres
  
Pop punk, Alternative rock

Similar
  
Explains It All, Enemy of the World, Rise or Die Trying, Four Year Strong, It's Our Time

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In Some Way, Shape, or Form is the fourth full-length studio album by American rock band Four Year Strong, released through Decaydance and Universal Motown Records on November 8, 2011.

Contents

Recording and composition

The album was recorded between June–August 2011 at New Jersey's House of Loud, with producer David Bendeth. The album is the band's first without keyboardist/synthesizer player Josh Lyford, and is the band's first without synthesizers, as the band decided to remove the synthesizers from their songs, in order to mature and alter their sound. The album was influenced by Alexisonfire's Crisis (2006).

Release

On August 18, 2011, the band released the song "Stuck in the Middle" for free listening as a free taster from the album, with an unofficial music video following on October 19, which showed footage of the band on their latest tour and features scenes of the recording process of In Some Way, Shape, or Form. On September 8, 2011, the band released another song for free, "Falling on You", which was already played live on the band's latest tour. "Just Drive" was released to radio on September 27, 2011, with a music video following exactly a month later, on October 27.

On October 14, 2011, Alternative Press revealed the track list of the album. On October 26, 2011, the band released another song for free listening. The song, entitled "Fairweather Fan", is a special song the band dedicated to their fans and was previously leaked in low quality footage that was filmed during the band's Fall 2011 AP Tour, where they debuted the song. The band released the song as a free download on their Facebook page. On November 4, 2011, the band uploaded the whole album for free streaming on their Facebook page.

Reception

The album sold over 6,500 copies in its first week, debuting at number 88 on the Billboard 200, nearly half of what their previous album Enemy of the World sold in its first week.

Track listing

All songs written by Dan O'Connor and Alan Day.

Song titles

  • "The Security of the Familiar, the Tranquility of Repetition" is a line from the film V for Vendetta.
  • "Only the Meek Get Pinched, the Bold Survive" is a line from the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
  • "Fight The Future" is titled in reference to the first X-Files film, of which "Fight the Future" was the subtitle and tagline. The X-Files is also heavily referenced in the music video for the album's first single "Just Drive", including a street sign that reads "The truth is out there," one of the mottos of the series.
  • When a tentative track listing was released, "Bring on the World" was shown to be titled "This Is Your Life and It's Ending One Minute at a Time", a line from the film Fight Club.

    • Songs

    1The Infected3:17
    2The Security of the Familiar - the Tranquility of Repetition3:28
    3Stuck in the Middle3:37

    References

    In Some Way, Shape, or Form Wikipedia
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