''Consent to Treatment'' is the second

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. Pre-production sessions took place in Nashville with producer Blue Miller, and the final album recording sessions took place at Bay 7 Studios in

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and Media Vortex in Burbank,

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with producer

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. The album was released in the

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on August 15, 2000, by

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. It is the band's first major-label album and their only album to feature former member Brant Coulter on guitar as well as their first album featuring

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. The opening track is a spoken poem written by

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and recited by Blue Miller. Ryan Smith sings the female backing vocals on "The Answer" and "Balance Beam." The cover art was inspired by

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's music videos for "

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" and “

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”. Matt Noveskey has said that Nick Launay was extremely nurturing in response to Noveskey's inquisitiveness during the ''Consent to Treatment'' production process, which was the impetus for Noveskey pursuing a career as a producer himself. When performed live, the album tells a story of Justin Furstenfeld first falling in love with his girlfriend Amanda. However, while Justin is away recording Blue October's debut album, Amanda betrays Justin by sleeping with his friend James. Upon finding out, Justin is enraged and is committed to a mental hospital after threatening to kill James and himself. Justin is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and is prescribed medication and eventually released and finds closure and happiness through shedding codependency and expressing his emotions through musical performance.

Track listing

All tracks written by

except for "James", cowritten with

Personnel

- lead vocals, guitar * Brant Coulter - lead guitar *

- bass and acoustic guitars, backing vocals, sleeve art, *

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- piano *

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- violin, mandolin *

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- violin * Jane Scarpantoni - cello, string arrangements *

Jeremy Furstenfeld Blue October is an American rock band originally from Houston, Texas. The band was formed in 1995 and is currently composed of singer/guitarist Justin Furstenfeld, drummer Jeremy Furstenfeld, multi-instrumentalist Ryan Delahoussaye, bassist ...

- drums * Blue Miller - vocals, producer, mixing * Ryan Smith - backing vocals * Martin Klemm - assistant engineer * David Ahlert - assistant engineer * Kevin Page - assistant engineer * Greg Archilla - production, mixing *

- producer, engineer, mixing *

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- mastering

References

2000 albums Blue October albums Albums produced by Nick Launay Universal Records albums {{2000-rock-album-stub