''A Dream is a Question You Don't Know How to Answer'' is the debut studio album by Canadian recording artist

Jonny Craig Jonathan Monroe Craig (born March 26, 1986) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter, best known as the former lead vocalist of bands Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa, and Rain City Drive, as well as the co-lead vocalist of the short-lived supe ...

, released on August 18, 2009 via Rise Records.

Background

On July 13, Jonny Craig posted two songs from his solo album on his Myspace; "I Still Feel Her, Part III" and "Children of Divorce". On July 16, Jonny Craig Posted 3rd song, Called '7 AM, 2 Bottles And The Wrong Road' from his solo album. An update on the track listing on July 27 revealed that The Pain Loss did not make the final cut for the album. The album leaked on August 13, 2009. The album peaked at number 12 on the '' Billboard''

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chart and 42 on the

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. Recently, the music video for I Still Feel Her, Part III was released. It was filmed by producer Robby Starbuck. The music video features Pierce the Veil members Tony Perry on bass guitar and

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on drums. Also, Matt Mingus and Jon Mess from

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, and Tyler McElhaney and Noah Slifka from

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are featured as cameos. On February 25, 2010 his music video for Children of Divorce was released. The video was filmed by producer Robby Starbuck.

Track listing

Personnel

As listed on the liner notes *Jonny Craig – vocals, piano *

Kris Crummett Kris Crummett is an American record producer and owner of the Interlace Audio in Portland, Oregon. Crummett started recording in 2002. He has worked with many notable indie music record labels, including Rise Records, Epitaph Records, Fearless Re ...

– guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, producer, engineer, mixer, mastering *Stephan Hawkes – guitars *Jeff Bond – guitar on tracks 4, 7, 9, 10 *Michael Barrett – guitar on track 3 *Robbie Dressler – bass on tracks 2, 3, 9 *Josh Northcutt – drums on tracks 2, 3, 4, 9 *Allison Green – additional vocals on track 3
Official site album artist Vasily Kafanov
The album artwork was done by Vasily Kafanov who also worked on

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album

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, as well as every full length album by indie/post-hardcore band

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Title

The title of the album is paraphrased from a quote said by

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in an episode of

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entitled " Paper Hearts". A nearly identical instance of this quote is spoken by

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in the episode " Aubrey".

Uses in other media

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Bizzy Bone samples the main chorus of "I Still Feel Her Pt. 3" for the song "Bottled Up Like Smoke", featured on his studio album '' Crossroads: 2010''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dream Is A Question You Don't Know How To Answer 2009 debut albums Jonny Craig albums Rise Records albums Albums produced by Kris Crummett