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Deja Entendu
Deja Entendu (French for "already heard") is the second studio album by American rock band Brand New; it was released on June 17, 2003, by Triple Crown Records and Razor & Tie. It was widely praised for showing the band's maturation from their pop punk debut Your Favorite Weapon, and critics described the album as the moment when the band "started showing ambition to look beyond the emo/post-hardcore scene that birthed them."
The album, considered the band's "breakthrough", was Brand New's first to chart in the United States (at number 63), and its two singles "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" and "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" both reached the top 40 in the United Kingdom Singles Chart and earned MTV airplay. It was certified Gold nearly four years after its release. Its commercial success led to Brand New signing with DreamWorks/Interscope Records shortly after.
The album received very positive reviews and has since been placed on numerous lists as one of the greatest albums of the decade and from the emo genre.
Brand New's second studio album was written in "the year-and-a-half or two years" that they were touring the material from Your Favorite Weapon. According to drummer Brian Lane, "Jesse [Lacey] wrote a lot of the lyrics about different things than 'I just broke up with my girlfriend' for the new record." Lacey wrote the songs on an acoustic guitar in his bedroom.
"I'm surprised that so many bands just keep putting out the same record as they did previously. We try to flex as much of our diversity muscles… as we can," Lacey said about the band's development. Revolver felt that Brand New was trying to show people that "there's more to music than three-chord pop-punk and screaming infidelities."
The band wanted to include moments on Deja Entendu that drew from Radiohead and Sigur Rós, which Revolver claimed were "bands their fans have probably never heard." Lacey saw this as a gamble because of the pop-punk fanbase they received from Your Favorite Weapon, believing that "to be able to slip those sounds in... I thought everyone was going to hate it."
The album was produced by Steven Haigler.
Deja Entendu literally translates to "already heard" in French. Frontman Jesse Lacey told MTV that the title was a "tongue-in-cheek" commentary about the band's music, stating: "No matter who you are or what your band is about, you can't put a record out without people saying it's derivative of something else. So by saying the record's already been heard, it's kind of like saying, 'Yeah, you're right. We're doing something that's already been done before.' We're not trying to break new ground in music. We're just trying to make good music." He also said that bands like Sigur Rós and Outkast were uniquely "groundbreaking" as "there is new territory to be charted, but I don't necessarily think that we're the ones to be doing it."
Deja Entendu
Deja Entendu (French for "already heard") is the second studio album by American rock band Brand New; it was released on June 17, 2003, by Triple Crown Records and Razor & Tie. It was widely praised for showing the band's maturation from their pop punk debut Your Favorite Weapon, and critics described the album as the moment when the band "started showing ambition to look beyond the emo/post-hardcore scene that birthed them."
The album, considered the band's "breakthrough", was Brand New's first to chart in the United States (at number 63), and its two singles "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" and "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades" both reached the top 40 in the United Kingdom Singles Chart and earned MTV airplay. It was certified Gold nearly four years after its release. Its commercial success led to Brand New signing with DreamWorks/Interscope Records shortly after.
The album received very positive reviews and has since been placed on numerous lists as one of the greatest albums of the decade and from the emo genre.
Brand New's second studio album was written in "the year-and-a-half or two years" that they were touring the material from Your Favorite Weapon. According to drummer Brian Lane, "Jesse [Lacey] wrote a lot of the lyrics about different things than 'I just broke up with my girlfriend' for the new record." Lacey wrote the songs on an acoustic guitar in his bedroom.
"I'm surprised that so many bands just keep putting out the same record as they did previously. We try to flex as much of our diversity muscles… as we can," Lacey said about the band's development. Revolver felt that Brand New was trying to show people that "there's more to music than three-chord pop-punk and screaming infidelities."
The band wanted to include moments on Deja Entendu that drew from Radiohead and Sigur Rós, which Revolver claimed were "bands their fans have probably never heard." Lacey saw this as a gamble because of the pop-punk fanbase they received from Your Favorite Weapon, believing that "to be able to slip those sounds in... I thought everyone was going to hate it."
The album was produced by Steven Haigler.
Deja Entendu literally translates to "already heard" in French. Frontman Jesse Lacey told MTV that the title was a "tongue-in-cheek" commentary about the band's music, stating: "No matter who you are or what your band is about, you can't put a record out without people saying it's derivative of something else. So by saying the record's already been heard, it's kind of like saying, 'Yeah, you're right. We're doing something that's already been done before.' We're not trying to break new ground in music. We're just trying to make good music." He also said that bands like Sigur Rós and Outkast were uniquely "groundbreaking" as "there is new territory to be charted, but I don't necessarily think that we're the ones to be doing it."