Released June 10, 2003 Release date 10 June 2003 Producers Kenna, Chad Hugo | Artist Kenna Label Columbia Records | |
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New Sacred Cow
(2003) The Black Goodbye EP
(2007) Genres Alternative rock, New wave, Electronica, Indie rock, Electro, Electronic dance music People also search for Make Sure They See My Face, Chains | ||
Within earshot
New Sacred Cow is the debut album by Kenna, released in June 10, 2003 by Columbia Records. The album was produced by Chad Hugo of The Neptunes and Kenna. Kenna created something of an underground buzz with the release of his first single "Hell Bent" in 2001. The album was leaked to the internet over a year before its final release, as it was delayed by record company politics. "Freetime" was chosen as the single to lead off the release of the album. A video was shot, and appeared sporadically on MTV2 along with the video for "Hell Bent". "Freetime" peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts. In late 2004, "Sunday After You" was remixed by Chad Hugo and released as a single. The single version differs greatly from the album version.
Contents
New sacred cow
Release and reception
On the CD, "Vexed and Glorious" and "A Better Control" are placed on the same track, allegedly due to an editing mistake. Tracks 8, 9, and 13 were produced by Kenna alone, and all others were with Chad Hugo.
Although "New Sacred Cow" was leaked to the internet a year before the actual album's release, the song, "Siren", wasn't available to downloaders until the official release of the album in record stores. Also, the tracks, "Vexed and Glorious" and "A Better Control" were merged into a single mp3 file, as opposed to two separate tracks.
A music video to the stop motion short film More to the song of "Hell Bent" was aired on MTV2 in 2001, and the Toonami Midnight Run. It was created and directed by one of the future directors of Kung Fu Panda, Mark Osbourne.
"Freetime" is used in the TV show CSI.
Personnel
Songs
1Within Earshot1:20
2Freetime3:24
3Man Fading4:05