''Flashlights'' is the third record by the Atlanta-based independent rock band
Y-O-U
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. The album was first made available via free download on the band's
MySpace profile on
New Year's Day
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, 2007, and on
compact disc
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on January 23 of the same year.
According to the band's official
MySpace profile, ''Flashlights'' was the exclusive theme music of the Phillips Lounge at the 2007
Sundance Film Festival
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.
Track listing
# "The Physics of Giving (Einstein Song)" - 4:23
# "Goodnight Goes" - 8:32
# "Medicine Man" - 3:45
# "Moviekiss" (new version) - 3:43
# "...Now Everyone Knows..." (an extended ending of "Moviekiss") - 1:39
# "Glad" - 1:03
# "I Found You" - 2:12
# "Break" - 5:11
# "Alright, Alright, Alright" - 2:27
# "All Arranged #7" (a different version of "All Arranged #2" from ''
Everything is Shifting'') - 4:30
# "Second Chance" - 3:43
# "Let It Go" - 3:05
# "Glad I Found You. Again." - 0:40
# "Effort" - 5:46
Music videos
"The Physics of Giving"
*Dir: Ryan Sterritt (
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technician)
*Sign language: Y-O-U
"Moviekiss"
*Dir: Adam Stills
*Video is composed of kiss scenes from movies.
*One video uses album version; an alternate similar video uses a live performance track.
"Break"
*Dir: Tyler James
*Feat: Clay Cook
*Song is a live performance, not the album version.
*Filmed in
stop-motion animation
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.
Personnel
Y-O-U is
*Nicholas Niespodziani
*Peter Olson
*?Mark Cobb
Additional musicians
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Clay Cook
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- Guitar, organ, Rhodes, pedal steel, banjo, backing vocals
*Mark Bencuya - Piano, Wurlitzer, ARP strings
*Dog Stevens (Cobb) - Typewriter
*Saul Pimon (Olson) - Indian flute
*Lenny Koggins (Niespodziani) - Recorders
Technical
*Producer: Geoff Melkonian and Y-O-U
*Additional production: Kristofer Sampson and Cliff Byrd
*Engineer: Kristofer Sampson
*Additional engineering: Clay Cook, Peter Olson, Nicholas Niespodziani
*Mixer: David Barbe
*Mastered by: Alex Lowe
*Art Design & Photography: Theodore Schuyler
References
Atlanta Music Guide recent news(Google cached copy)
2007 albums
Y-O-U albums
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