''The Burning Hour'' is the debut album from

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band Test Your Reflex. It was released on April 24, 2007 on

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. It peaked at No. 46 on ''

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s Top Heatseekers chart (week of May 12, 2007)
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Track listing

# I'm Not Sorry (5:09) # Pieces of the Sun (3:45) # Thinking of You (3:37) # New Year (3:53) # I Am Alive (5:11) # Black Hearts (3:17) # Do We Belong (4:36) # I Won't Follow (4:29) # This Year (If We Fall in Love) (3:47) # I Know You're Lonely (4:26) # Painted Red (7:04)

Quotes

Making of
"We wrote for two years before we went into the studio, and we were really inspired by records that sounded big. We started out listening to a lot of danceable stuff, but we'd always go back to U2's Joshua Tree and

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's So -- two albums that are just rock solid from beginning to end and that just go for it. Because of that, we didn't shy away from big choruses or big production -- we wanted every song to be a journey." - Ryan Levine (The Official Homepage of

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, this SoCal combo produces consistently invigorating tracks..

Videos

''Pieces of the Sun'' (

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Charts

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Burning Hour, The 2007 debut albums RCA Records albums