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- This Is a Fix est le deuxième album du groupe britannique de rock indépendant The Automatic, publié le 25 août 2008 par B-Unique Records et Polydor. (fr)
- This Is A Fix is the second album by Wales-based band The Automatic. It was released on 25 August 2008. The band worked with producer Don Gilmore in Los Angeles, but were disappointed with these sessions, and instead worked with Butch Walker at Sage and Sound Recording in Los Angeles then back in Cardiff with Richard Jackson and London with Stephen Harris. The Automatic began work in 2006 on the follow-up to previous album Not Accepted Anywhere, however after the departure of Alex Pennie and addition of Paul Mullen, the completed recordings of such songs as "Steve McQueen" and "Revolution" - which featured Pennie providing synths and vocals - were shelved and later re-recorded with Mullen. Writing took place sporadically - with songs originating from both before and after Mullen's joining. The album spawned only one single "Steve McQueen", however "Magazines" and "Secret Police" were originally planned for release as singles. This Is A Fix leaked onto the internet a month before release, it was also hindered by online distribution issues - which saw both the single "Steve McQueen" and album get released late across sites such as iTunes and 7digital. (en)
- This Is a Fix è il secondo album in studio del gruppo rock gallese The Automatic, pubblicato nel 2008. (it)
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- There’s a bit of an idea of something going on behind the scenes, like espionage or something like that. Bit of a war theme as well. Completely by accident, but it’s there. Kind of ties in with the album title, 'This Is a Fix'. There’s different layers of meaning to that as well. It could be a fix as in a repair, a fix as in a drug fix, something you need or a solution – there’s a lot of meanings to it. Frost: That all points to a few of the tracks, there’s one called 'Secret Police' and one called 'Bad Guy', which are tying in with the espionage thing, but then one about needing to enjoy yourself and get drunk once in a while and how everyone needs to do that’s another kind of fix, so that title is just from a line in the song, but it accidentally ties in with almost every other track (en)
- The atmosphere when we we're working with Don Gilmore wasn't too uptight or anything, but it felt a bit like clocking in and clocking out at the beginning and end of everyday, rather than this sort of fluid process, and Don was well into working with pro-tools and chopping everything up we're not particularly about that, we'd rather play something and press record and if you can't play it, you can't play it. (en)
- Writing the second album was relatively easy! It was hard to stop. It had been over two years since we'd written Not Accepted Anywhere by the time we started writing for This Is A Fix, so we had a massive build-up of ideas. We'd spent years on the road, growing as musicians and as people too (en)
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- This Is a Fix est le deuxième album du groupe britannique de rock indépendant The Automatic, publié le 25 août 2008 par B-Unique Records et Polydor. (fr)
- This Is a Fix è il secondo album in studio del gruppo rock gallese The Automatic, pubblicato nel 2008. (it)
- This Is A Fix is the second album by Wales-based band The Automatic. It was released on 25 August 2008. The band worked with producer Don Gilmore in Los Angeles, but were disappointed with these sessions, and instead worked with Butch Walker at Sage and Sound Recording in Los Angeles then back in Cardiff with Richard Jackson and London with Stephen Harris. (en)
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