''Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow'' is the third full-length

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band We Are the Ocean. It was released on 17 September 2012 through

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in the United Kingdom and through

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the next day, 18 September in the United States. The album is the first to be done by the band without their original lead vocalist Dan Brown, who was removed out of the band despite recording all his vocals for the album. The music featured on the album is seen as being a massive jump since the last album, '' Go Now and Live'', marking the beginning of their decline from

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, to a more fluid

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sound.

Background

On 5 June 2012 it was announced by the band that during the recording of the third album the band had started to struggle with differing creative opinions. With this announcement Dan Brown, the band's lead vocalist who was known for his

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role in the band officially left the band saying he would become the band's manager. A day after this announcement Dan Brown himself issued a statement saying: "I have been managing the band for the past two years and I've come to the realisation that, quite frankly, I'm better at managing a band than I am at being in a band, so it's time for me to attack that head first." However, a press release from British publication ''

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'' showed that Dan Brown had actually recorded all of his vocals for the new album and that he was in fact kicked out of the band abruptly. The band also refusing to allow him to join them on their leg on the American

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, considered by Brown as his dream. The band made their first live performance without Brown at

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on Sunday, June 10 on the Zippo Encore Stage.

Release and promotion

With the announcement of the line up change on 5 June 2012 the band released the first single from the album, "Bleed". The song was uploaded to their YouTube to stream as well as made a free download.

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said the song is "Easlily the best thing the band have ever done." The second single "The Road" was streamed exclusively through ''

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'' magazine's website on 6 August 2012. Two days prior to the single's stream, the band released a video of the making of the music video for "The Road". The song was made '' Q'' magazine's "Track of the Day". On 30 August the band debuted a third track, "Golden Gate", as promotion for the album by making it available to stream on YouTube, but was released exclusively through German website Stage Load. Leading up to the release of the album the band planned a seven-date tour of Germany between 5 and 15 September 2012. As part of the ongoing promotion for the album the band supported

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on their British tour in November.

Reception

Upon its release ''Maybe Today, Maybe Tomorrow'' received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 7 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".

Track listing

Personnel

;We Are the Ocean * Liam Cromby –

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* Alfie Scully –

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on track 9 * Jack Spence –

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* Tom Whittaker –

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Release history

References

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