Artist The Bats Label Hidden Agenda | Release date 1 December 2008 | |
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Released 1 December 2008 (2008-12-01) (NZ)
23 June 2009 (2009-06-23) (USA) Recorded August 2007-June 2008 at The National Grid and Longfellow Studio in Christchurch, and Masonic Lodge, Port Chalmers The Guilty Office
(2008) Free All the Monsters
(2011) Genres Indie pop, Indie rock, Alternative rock Similar At the National Grid, The Law of Things, Free All the Monsters, Fear of God, Thousands of Tiny Luminous | ||
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The Guilty Office is the seventh studio album by New Zealand indie band, The Bats, released in New Zealand on 1 December 2008, and in the United States on 23 June 2009.
Contents
The bats castle lights from the guilty office album
Recording and New Zealand release
Recording of The Guilty Office began on 25–26 August 2007 in the newly built National Grid Studio in Heathcote Valley, Christchurch. The band had a few songs prepared from a demo session earlier in 2007, as well as some new songs written by Robert Scott. Scott has said that the recording process was "...pretty much the same as the others. I had a big bunch of songs and the rest of the band chose the ones they liked and we got them into shape and put them down live in the studio.” The tracks "Guilty Office" and "Two Lines" grew out of improvised jams. The rhythm tracks for the album were recorded by John Kelcher. Additional tracks and mixing and mastering were recorded by Paul Keen at Longfellow Studio, while the strings, harp and accordion parts were recorded by Mike McLeod at the Masonic Lodge in Port Chalmers.
The album was released in New Zealand by Arch Hill on 1 December 2008. The cover art is by band member Robert Scott.
The video for "Castle Lights" was filmed in London by Hector Hazard, whereas the first video, for "Like Water In Your Hand", was simply shots of light reflecting off water ripples.
International releases
The album was released internationally by the following labels:
Track listing
All tracks written by The Bats/Robert Scott.
Songs
1Countersign4:21
2Crimson Enemy2:52
3Broken Path4:37