''Trampoline'' is the second studio album released by

Steel Train Steel Train was an indie rock band from New Jersey. They have toured with The Juliana Theory, Tegan and Sara, Girl in a Coma, Ben Folds, The Fray, Silversun Pickups, Hanson, The Format, Gomez, O.A.R., Something Corporate, Jack's Mannequin, Bare ...

Release

Between July and September 2007, the band supported

the Format The Format is an American indie rock band formed by Nate Ruess and Sam Means. Their style can be considered a mixture of indie, alternative, punk and folk music, with elements of 1960s and 1970s pop music. Though Means and Ruess are the foremost ...

on their headlining US tour. "Firecracker" and "Alone on the Sea" were posted on the band's Myspace page on October 8, 2007. ''Trampoline'' was released on October 16, 2007. In January and February 2008, the band went on a headlining east coast tour, with

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, Paper Rival and

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. During each date of the tour, the band performed ''Trampoline'' in its entirety, with an encore of older material. In March And April, the band supported

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on their headlining US tour. Also in April, the band appeared at the

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festival. From late May to early July, the band went on tour with

the Spill Canvas The Spill Canvas is an American alternative rock band from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Known for their hits "All Over You" "Our Song" and "Staplegunned", as well as several emo classics like "All Hail the Heartbreaker" "The Tide" and "Polygraph, ...

, Ludo, Sing It Loud and

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. In October and November, the band went on a headlining tour of the US with support from

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and Dear and the Headlights. They ended the year a holiday show with Envy on the Coast and the Gay Blades.

Track listing

All songs written by

Jack Antonoff Jack Michael Antonoff (born March 31, 1984) is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. Antonoff is the lead singer of rock band Bleachers, and is the guitarist and drummer in the pop rock band Fun. He was pr ...

. # "I Feel Weird" – 3:02 # "Black Eye" – 4:22 # "Kill Monsters in the Rain" – 3:58 # "Dakota" – 3:55 # "Alone on the Sea" – 7:08 # "Firecracker" – 3:27 # "A Magazine" – 5:12 # "Diamonds in the Sky" – 4:06 # "Leave You Traveling" – 3:47 # "I've Let You Go" – 3:47 # "School Is for Losers" – 3:43 # "Women I Belong To" – 6:20

Personnel

Steel Train

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

* Scott Irby-Ranniar – vocals,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

* Evan Winiker – bass, backing vocals * Daniel Silbert – guitar, backing vocals * Jon Shiffman – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

Nate Ruess Nate Ruess is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the founder and lead singer of the indie pop band Fun, and of The Format. As of 2015, he also performs as a solo musician. Early life Ruess was born the second child of Larry ...

- backing vocals on "Kill Monsters in the Rain" and "Dakota" *

Rachel Antonoff Rachel Antonoff is an American fashion designer based in New York City. She is known for presenting her designs in creative ways, including in the form of a murder mystery, as a "sock hop," and in a dollhouse. In 2015, director and actress Lena D ...

- backing vocals on "Dakota"

References

Steel Train albums 2007 albums Drive-Thru Records albums {{2000s-alt-rock-album-stub