David & the Citizens - Until the Sadness is Gone - US Release (CD)

Format: CD album U.S Release
Cat#: FFR 005
Label: Friendly Fire Recordings
Year: 2006

1. The End
2. Graycoated Morning
3. Until the Sadness is Gone
4. Never a Bottom
5. New Direction
6. Long Days
7. Sore feet + Blisters
8. On All American Winds
9. Let´s Not Fall Apart
10. Silverjacketgirl
11. As You Fall ( I Watch With Love)
12. Silent Track (Bonus track)
13. Betin (Bonus Track)
14. Glued to the Light (Bonus track)

David & the Citizens recorded “Until the Sadness is Gone” in Malmö (a small city in Southernmost Sweden, home to bands like the Cardigans and the Ark) with producer Jens Lindgård (Franz Ferdinand, the Cardigans, April March, St. Etienne). During the recording, and in between bouts of Playstation and Jim Beam bourbon, the band hung different metallic and glass objects on a string from the ceiling and hit them softly and randomly, “to produce the sound of a drunken boat in a storm.” They turned a bicycle upside down and ran a drumstick across the spinning wheels for the song “As You Fall (I Watch With Love)”. They ended up with an album that has already earned them tremendous acclaim in Sweden: they received a nomination for a Swedish Grammy (Best Pop Group) in 2004; they’ve performed at numerous major European indie rock festivals; and P3, one of Sweden’s largest television stations, produced a documentary on the band that has been aired repeatedly throughout Sweden and Denmark.