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This Little Empire

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Recorded
  
Radiostar Studios

Artist
  
Zed

Label
  
Universal Music

Length
  
42:42

Release date
  
11 November 2003

Genre
  
Rock music

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Released
  
November 11, 2003 (NZ edition) August 23, 2004 (US edition)

Producer
  
Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed, Malcolm Welsford, Martin Kierszenbaum

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This Little Empire is the second studio album by New Zealand rock band Zed. It was produced by Sylvia Massy Shivy and Zed at Radiostar Studios in Weed, California, and engineered by Rich Veltrop and assisted by Josh Kiser. Unlike the band's debut 2000 release, Silencer, This Little Empire was predominately produced for the American market, with a US edition and a New Zealand edition released. The track listing for the US edition contains tracks taken from their debut album. The album was released to the New Zealand market on November 11, 2003; and released internationally on August 23, 2004, via Interscope Records.

Contents

Chart performance

This Little Empire debuted in the Official New Zealand Top 40 Albums chart on November 9, 2003. It spent three weeks within the top ten and peaked at #4. The album spent a total of 13 weeks on the chart.

Personnel

  • Nathan King – vocals, guitar
  • Ben Campbell – bass, vocals
  • Andrew "Andy" Lynch – guitar, vocals, engineering
  • Adrian Palmer – drums, percussion
  • Sylvia Massy Shivy – producer
  • Rich Veltrop – engineering
  • Josh Kiser - assistant engineer
  • Clint Murphy – additional engineering
  • Rivers Cuomo – composer
  • Brian Wilson – composer
  • Roger Christian – composer
  • C. Brooks – composer
  • M. Barus – composer
  • Clif Norrell – mixing
  • Robert Orton – mixing (track 2)
  • Martin Kierszenbaum – additional production (track 2)
  • Malcolm Welsford – producer, engineering, mixing (track 5)
  • George Marino – mastering (track 5)
  • Martin Kierszenbaum – A&R director
  • Andrea Ruffalo – A&R co-ordinator
  • Robert Hayes – management
  • A. Kim Guggenheim – legal representative
  • Steve Strange – agent
  • Kevin Soh – concept, art direction and design
  • Simon Oosterdijk – concept, art direction and design
  • Aaron K. – photography
  • Karen Inderbitzen-Waller – styling

    • Credits for This Little Empire adapted from liner notes.

    Songs

    1Downtown3:11
    2Hard to Find Her3:03
    3Don't Worry Baby2:34

    References

    This Little Empire Wikipedia
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