Voices (Matchbook Romance album)

Background

The band chose to tune the all their guitars down half a step to help with the change. Vocalist Andrew Jordan adopts a much different vocal style for this record than their previous, bringing the band closer to the second-wave emo sound. The cover of the album was designed by Shawn Harris from pop punk band The Matches.

Inside the album's packaging is a small plastic panel, with alternating black and transparent strips. This panel can be aligned with parts of the album's artwork to reveal secret messages. Hence "there are voices in the walls." Some of the lyrics to the hidden track can also be found in typos in the lyrics of the other songs.

Release

The track "Monsters" was featured as the lead single from Voices, going on to be featured in video games such as Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Madden NFL 07 and Arena Football: Road to Glory.

Track listing

1. "You Can Run, But We'll Find You" – 4:08
2. "Surrender" – 4:50
3. "My Mannequin Can Dance" – 3:58
4. "Goody, Like Two Shoes" – 7:11
5. "Monsters" – 4:05
6. "Say it Like You Mean It" – 4:23
7. "Portrait" – 4:27
8. "Singing Bridges (We All Fall)" – 5:15
9. "Fiction" – 3:26
10. "What a Sight" – 4:30
11. "I Wish You Were Here" – 15:40

Personnel

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)