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''The Connection'' is the seventh studio album by American
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Papa Roach Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California, formed in 1993. The original lineup consisted of lead vocalist Jacoby Shaddix, guitarist Jerry Horton, drummer Dave Buckner, bassist Will James, and trombonist Ben Luther. After ...
. It was released on October 2, 2012, through
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. The album was produced by Sixx:A.M. vocalist
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, who co-produced the band's previous full-length album ''
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. The first single, " Still Swingin'", was released on July 24, 2012. A lyric video to the song "
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(Official Lyric Video) (@paparoach)"> On November 19, 2012, ''The Connection'' was released as a vinyl record, making it the first Papa Roach album to be released in that format. The album features several songs with
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influences. Some tracks on the album feature a return to the
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style rapping vocals of the band's early releases.


Background

Jacoby Shaddix Jacoby Dakota Shaddix (born July 28, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, TV presenter and actor. He is best known as the founding member and the continuous lead singer of the California-based rock band Papa Roach since the band's fo ...
has described the album as a "rediscovery of the basic elements of Papa Roach." He states: "We kind of went back and looked at the history of our band and really thought about… Creatively, what evolutions have we gone through? When we came in, it was, like, metal and hip-hop and nu-metal, and then we kind of got more into straight-ahead rock and then we added pop elements to our band. So this record just encompasses everything we’ve done from the beginning to where we are currently as a band; it just kind of connects the dots of all the elements of our sound over the years." "There's some hip-hop, more keyboards than before, sound loops, textures—it's dynamic, diverse and vulnerable. That is Papa Roach. We have never sounded better," said Shaddix. Regarding the album's title, Shaddix stated it was one of many different titles the band went through. "We always just kept coming back to ‘The Connection,’" stated Shaddix. "What ‘The Connection’ means to us, it’s our connection to the music, it’s the connection of this music to the fans, it’s the connection that we make onstage with our music, it’s the connection from fan-to-fan on the social Internet marketing media world."


Track listing


Sales

"The Connection", sold 22,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 17 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD arrived in stores on October 2 via Eleven Seven Music. It charted higher and sold more than Papa Roach's previous album, 2010's "Time For Annihilation ... On the Road & On the Record", which opened with 16,000 units to debut at position No. 23 on The Billboard 200 chart, but underperformed compared to the band's 2009 CD, "Metamorphosis", which premiered at #8 with nearly 44,000 copies. "The Connection" has sold more than 109,000 copies in the US as of 2015.


Reception

The album has received generally mixed reviews, with a 62% rating on Metacritic.
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gave the album 3 stars out of 5 saying: " he album strikesa balance between
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early roots as a nu-metal/rap-rock outfit and its more recent interest in '80s-style Sunset Strip hard rock... ''The Connection'' includes some creatively slick sounds that flow from buzzy, processed distortion to pulsating, atmospheric electronic flourishes."


Personnel

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Jacoby Shaddix Jacoby Dakota Shaddix (born July 28, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, TV presenter and actor. He is best known as the founding member and the continuous lead singer of the California-based rock band Papa Roach since the band's fo ...
- lead vocals *
Jerry Horton Jerry Allan Horton (born March 10, 1975) is an American musician who is the lead guitarist and backing vocalist and founding member of Californian rock band Papa Roach. Biography Jerry Horton was born in Charleston, South Carolina on March 10, ...
- guitar, backing vocals * Tobin Esperance - bass, backing vocals *
Tony Palermo Anthony Joseph Palermo (born November 22, 1969) is an American musician who is the drummer of Californian rock band Papa Roach and is the former drummer of punk rock bands Pulley and Unwritten Law. He was also a touring drummer for Sixx:A.M ...
- drums


Chart positions

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Connection Papa Roach albums 2012 albums Eleven Seven Label Group albums