{"product_id":"new-surrender","title":"New Surrender","description":"Product Description\n\nThis is the major label debut for the Central Florida pop-rock stalwarts, Anberlin. The new album features 13 tracks that further expand on Anberlin's signature sound. Stephen Christian's distinct vocals backed by Joseph Milligan and Christian McAlhaney's driving guitars and the rhythm section comprised of Deon Rexroat and Nathan Young on bass and drums respectively is the foundation for the band's success.\nNew Surrender, produced by Neal Avron (Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, New Found Glory), demonstrates the band's natural progression as musicians as well as solidifying their place as some of music's most creative songwriters. With all out rockers like \"Feel Good Drag\" and \"Blame Me! Blame Me!\" to the introspective \"Still Counting Backwards,\" Anberlin have created a record that is sure to propel the band to the next level. Universal Republic signed the band off of the success of their highly lauded breakthrough indie pop scorcher, Cities. The record debuted on Billboard's Top Albums chart in February 2007 at #19, and passed the coveted 100,000 indie-sales milestone fueled by their riveting hit single \"Godspeed.\"\nIt has been Anberlin's emotive pop\/rock chemistry that has excited fans and critics ever since their Polk County, FLA launch six years ago, rising through the indie ranks with a magnetic collection of releases on Tooth \u0026amp; Nail Records, including their memorable 2003 debut Blueprints For The Blackmarket. Their 2005 release, Never Take Friendship Personal, saw them gain even more indie traction, (the band has logged combined album sales of more than 400,000 albums) with the single \"Paperthin Hymn\" peaking in the Top 40 of the Modern Rock Radio chart. Their touring, coupled with a loyal myspace following, cemented their reputation as one of the bands to watch in 2007. Anberlin delivered on that with the celebrated Cities. Cited by many critics as indispensable to the modern rock scene, rock forecasters have bookmarked their upcoming album New Surrender as one of the truly viable indie-to-major success stories ready to blow in 2008.\n\nAbout the Artist\n\nIn today's instantly downloadable and quickly consumed culture, bands like Anberlin are a dying breed. Over the course of six years and four full-lengths (including last year's B-side compilation Lost Songs), the band have established themselves as one of alternative rock's most exciting acts and as a band who refuse to limit themselves to one specific scene or sound... and it's paid off. If the band reinvented themselves with last year's sprawling album Cities--which debuted in the Billboard Top 20 and sold 34,000 copies its first week of release--they've transcended that sound with New Surrender. In fact, their latest album that shows the band reconciling all of their seemingly disparate moods into a cohesive blend of music that will lull you to sleep with gentle harmonies one minute and shake you to the core via raw, distortion-drenched rock riffage the next.\nThis control of dynamics has embodied Anberlin's music since their 2003 debut Blueprints For The Black Market which instantly caught on with fans of emotional music who didn't want to be fed the same musical clichés--oh, and touring alongside acts like Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance to support that album didn't hurt either. After playing literally hundreds of shows and growing as both musicians and people the band released their sophomore album Never Take Friendship Personal in 2005. Markedly more mature both musically and lyrically, that album established Anberlin as more than another underground sensation and showed that there was no limit to what the band could achieve. This same trend was evident with last year's mainstream breakthrough Cities, which showed the band progressing even more and expanding their musical vision exponentially.\nAll this brings us to New Surrender. Although the album retains the Anberlin sound that fans have grown to love, in many ways it's also an album of firsts that marks the next chapter in the band's illustrious history. For example, after working for years exclusively with longtime producer\/friend Aaron Sprinkle this time around the band decided to enlist legendary producer Neal Avron (Fall Out Boy, Yellowcard, New Found Glory) to capture their sound. Additionally, after selling 435,000 albums on the well-respected indie label Tooth And Nail, with New Surrender the band decided it was finally time for them to step up to a major label--and although they had been courted by various majors for years, the band decided to go with Universal Republic. \"At Tooth And Nail there was a glass ceiling and there was no way to get our music out to all the people we wanted to reach,\" Christian explains when asked about the band's decision to change labels. \"To us, Universal Republic represents a sense of stability in this turbulent\nera for music: The staff is going nowhere, the label is here to stay and they have proven time and time again that they can tak\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B001BYZX1K\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B001BYZX1K.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Anberlin\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. 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