Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
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| Studio album by Ashes Divide | ||||
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 8 April 2008 19 April 2008 |
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| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, alternative metal, hard rock | |||
| Length | 44:26 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Producer | Billy Howerdel, Danny Lohner | |||
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| 411mania.com |
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Keep Telling Myself It's Alright is the debut studio album by American rock band Ashes Divide, the solo-project by A Perfect Circle guitarist Billy Howerdel. While efforts towards a Howerdel solo album were started even back in his time in A Perfect Circle during touring in support of their 2003 album Thirteenth Step, commitments to A Perfect Circle and other projects, along with some difficult recording sessions, pushed the album's release out to April 8, 2008. Its first single, "The Stone," entered radio circulation in January of that year.
Billy Howerdel first started working off and on on solo material prior to the writing sessions for A Perfect Circles second album, Thirteenth Step, in 2003. Rough versions of three or four songs had been written during the era, including the track "Stripped Away, which was even played at soundchecks at A Perfect Circle concerts while supporting the album. Additionally, the A Perfect Circle demo "Army" was eventually reworked into Howerdel's own "The Stone". Shortly after Thirteenth Step, A Perfect Circle decided to quickly throw together a collection of anti-war cover songs just prior to the 2004 Presidential Elections, entitled Emotive. A Perfect Circle frontman and lead vocalist Maynard James Keenan pushed Howerdel to sing lead vocals on a few of the songs on Emotive to "get people used to your voice", and to help Howerdel transition to a role of primary singer in his solo work. Once Emotive was completed, A Perfect Circle went into hiatus, and Howerdel centered his focus around his solo work.
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