Crossing The Rubicon is the third studio album by Swedish New Wave band The Sounds released on June 2, 2009. On April 17, the first single "No One Sleeps When I'm Awake" was released on iTunes worldwide. The album was available to Spotify Premium customers from May 29, and it was officially released June 2. The second single, "Beatbox" was released on January 12, 2010 on iTunes exclusively.

The track "Home Is Where Your Heart Is" is featured on the second part of the 5th season of the MTV reality show The Hills.

Background

For their third album, the band dropped all their producers and founded their own label, Arnioki Records, and used their own money to record Crossing the Rubicon. The band is supporting the album with a world tour.

Charts

Personnel

* Maja Ivarsson – vocals

* Felix Rodriguez – guitar, backing vocals

* Johan Bengtsson – bass guitar

* Jesper Anderberg – keyboards, piano, guitar, synthesizers, backing vocals

* Fredrik Nilsson – drums, percussion

References

Category:2009 albums

Category:The Sounds albums

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Category:New Line Records albums

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Artist/Band Information

The Sounds are a Swedish New Wave band from Helsingborg. The group's musical style has been compared to New Wave acts such as Blondie, The Cars, the Epoxies and Missing Persons.

Their debut album, Living in America, was released in 2002, with the follow up, Dying to Say This to You, on March 21, 2006. Their third album, Crossing the Rubicon, was released on June 2 2009.

Lead singer Maja Ivarsson is explicit about her ambition, claiming "I want to be the best female vocalist around...of at least this century". She was featured on Cobra Starship's "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)", for the film Snakes on a Plane. In addition to Ivarsson's contribution to the Snakes soundtrack, the entire band is featured as track 6, "Queen of Apology," remixed by Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump.

Band members Jesper Anderberg and Felix Rodriguez have recently been working as songwriters for other artists, among them the Dutch pop band Krezip and the Swedish punk band Quit Your Dayjob.

For Krezip's latest album (Plug it In), the pair wrote three songs: "All My Life", "Play This Game With Me" and "You're Wrong". "All My Life" has been one of the most played songs of 2008 in Holland. Krezip's album Plug It In was also produced by Adel Dahdal (with Peter Mansson), who produced The Sounds' debut album Living in America together with Jimmy Monell.

Members

* Maja Ivarsson – vocals

* Felix Rodriguez – guitar

* Jesper Anderberg – keyboards, piano, guitar

* Johan Bengtsson – bass

* Fredrik Nilsson – drums

History

Flickr - moses namkung - The Sounds 4.jpgthumb200pxleftupleftMaja Ivarsson performing.

The Sounds were formed in 1998 by classmates Felix Rodriguez, Maja Ivarsson, Johan Bengtsson and Fredrik Nilsson in Helsingborg, Sweden. The group met Jesper Anderberg, the youngest member, by chance at the Hultsfred Festival and was enlisted to play keyboards and guitar. The band's name was decided months later during a trip to London. Before becoming the lead singer of the band, Ivarsson had previously played electric guitar in other local bands.

Their debut album, Living in America, was recorded in Stockholm and produced by Adel Dahdal and Jimmy Monell. It earned them several "best newcomer" awards, a Grammis and a #4 position in the Swedish album charts, and established the band not only in Sweden but also in the United States. The band has played over 500 gigs since the album's release including participating in the 2004 Warped Tour. In 2006 they played again at Warped Tour, this time on main stage, and have toured with bands such as Foo Fighters, The Strokes, Morningwood, Angels & Airwaves, +44 (band)44