''The Fiction We Live'' is the second studio album by the American

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band

From Autumn to Ashes From Autumn to Ashes is a post-hardcore band based in Long Island, New York. The group formed in 2000 under the name Who's to Blame. While the band had gone through many line-up changes, the members include Francis Mark (lead vocals, drums), S ...

. It was produced by

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and released September 9, 2003, through

Vagrant Records Vagrant Records is an American record label based in California. It was founded in 1995 by Rich Egan and Jon Cohen. The label focuses on rock, but features artists in a variety of other genres including folk, soul, electronic, and pop. It is home ...

. Melanie Wills of

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makes a guest appearance once again, contributing to the vocals on "Autumns Monologue." This is the last album to feature

Scott Gross Scott Gross is an American musician, guitarist, composer, producer, audio engineer and writer known as a member of the band From Autumn To Ashes and owner and founder of Hit And Run Studios in Long Island, New York. Before From Autumn To Ashes he ...

and Mike Pilato. It peaked at number 73 on the ''US ''Billboard'' 200'' charts.

Videos

Three

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s were produced for ''The Fiction We Live'': "The After Dinner Payback", "Lilacs & Lolita," and "Milligram Smile." They aired on ''

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'' upon release.

Musical style

The album features more clean vocals than the previous album, '' Too Bad You're Beautiful''. Four songs have no screaming vocals, "No Trivia", "Autumns Monologue", "The Fiction We Live", and "I'm the Best at Ruining My Life." "Autumns Monologue" is a re-working of "The Fiction We Live" with the collaboration of Melanie Wills.

Track listing

Personnel

;From Autumn to Ashes *Benjamin Perri –

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Francis Mark Francis Mark is an American drummer, singer, guitarist, songwriter and artist known as a member of the bands From Autumn to Ashes, Warship, Biology, and Tidal Arms. Mark currently resides in Brooklyn, New York and plays with Tidal Arms. Before ...

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

, vocals *

–

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...

*Brian Denevee –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

*Mike Pilato –

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

;Artwork *P.R. Brown – art Direction, photography, design ;Managerial *Cory Brennan – management *Irene Richter – managing assistant *Tim Borror – US booking agent *John Jackson – international booking agent ;Production *

– producer *Dean Mahler –

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*Christopher Shaw – mixing *Zach Blackstone – mixing assistant *Chris Crippen – drum technician *Ben Kaplan – digital Editing, engineer, programming *Misha Rajaratnam – mixing assistant *Lee Robertson & Gordon Sran – assistant engineers *Darryl Romphf – assistant engineer, production coordination *

Howie Weinberg Howie Weinberg is an American audio mastering engineer with over 2,257 mastering credits, three TEC Awards, 21 Grammy Awards, two Juno Awards, and one Mercury Prize. Career Weinberg mastered Herbie Hancock's 1983 album ''Future Shock''. Other m ...

– mastering

Charts

;Album

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiction We Live, The 2003 albums From Autumn to Ashes albums Vagrant Records albums Albums produced by Garth Richardson