// INITIATION
01 - Like Days
02 - Life is Sweet
03 - Peacocks
04 - The Underwater Song
05 - All or Nothing
06 - Initiation
07 - A Thousand Years
08 - The Conversation
09 - Dead End Queen
10 - Christian, Christian
11 - Jewel
12 - You, Me and a Knife
13 - Sleepwalker (Only on Promotional Copy in the US or England release of the album)
//RELEASE DATE: August 24, 2004
//LABEL: Nitro Records
//FUN FACTS:Enhanced CD (Contains album recording footage, "Like Days" behind the scenes on location shoot, and audio commentary by Aimee Echo)
//AIMEE SAYS:: I'm really proud of it. I am really really happy.. Definitely it feels like.. and i know this is the same thing that every band says.. but it feels like an evolution as a band.. I would hope that we have evolved.. it would be sad to go backwards.. but I think this time it really is getting closer to what.. and I dont want to say vision.. but it is closer to my vision that we have ever gotten before..
//ABOUT RECORDING:: We are always writing and recording so.. the period of time we spent focusing on it was about 5 or 6 weeks. But some of the songs started.. like a year and a half ago, I guess when.. the earliest, some of the stuff was written. But actually that was when the earlier ideas of some of the songs happened.. but they are much different.. because of course they have evolved over the past year and a half as well... and then last winter, we spent 2 weeks in canvas.. in a basement writing them up and cutting them up and taking out the extra bits.. and then Jamie and I, after we did that.. we spent 3 or 4 weeks in LA, wihtout the band, just going over.. I was writing lyrics and melodies and finishing things.. and then we spent another week or so with the band after we did ... so two weeks with the band, four weeks without the band, and then another week to put it all together before we recorded it. - AECHO
// DEATH VIA SATELLITE EP
01 - Death Via Satellite
02 - Big Shot
03 - Los Angelos
04 - The 1234
05 - Hi Flyer
06 - Trinity
//RELEASED: December 9, 2003
//LABEL: Nitro Records
//FUN FACTS: the re-release of theSTART ep with new cover art, the 1234 video, and pictures
// THE START EP
01 - Death Via Satellite
02 - Big Shot
03 - Los Angelos
04 - The 1234
05 - Hi Flyer
06 - Trinity
//RELEASED:: August 1, 2002
//LABEL: first version on Smallstone Records, second on Newblack Records
//FUN FACTS: Also known as The Death Via Satellite EP, first version had a typo in the track listing and i used to have this case but alas someone likes to steal my rare start artifacts!
// THE 1234 EP
01 - The 1234
02 - Big Shot
03 - Hi Flyer
//RELEASED: April 10, 2002
//LABEL: independently released
//FUN FACTS: Only five hundred copies were made. I have one of those copies, but the case for it was stolen when someone decided to break out of my car, i still have the cd at least
// SHAKEDOWN!
01 - Shakedown!
02 - Gorgeous
03 - Communion
04 - Melt
05 - Hang On Me
06 - Dirty Lion
07 - Her Song
08 - Glimmer Man
09 - Kiss It Better
10 - Nemesis
11 - Time
//RELEASED: July 21, 2001
//LABEL: The Label
//FUN FACTS:"Shakedown!" album was originally called "Circles". Listen for eno's howling debut at the end of "Time"
//AIMEE SAYS: We want to provide an alternative to whats going on in music right now. We tried to be a little more upbeat. To us it’s really important that we were able to do what we do and transcend gender. It’s cool to see younger girls thinking of that as a career opportunity these days. I want to let people know there is something else out there. There is also a lack of punk rock dancing these days. The old punk dancing sort of ended after Nirvana. I heard someone use the term “Rape-rock.” That really freaked me out. Wow. But that’s kind of the case these days. I read a statistic yesterday that said one in three girls in the pit gets groped or molested.
//ABOUT RECORDING: We did all of the rehearsals in a “group home” type thing that was a studio apartment. Then we went to Sunset Sound and just banged it out over several weeks. We did some other recording for the vocals at the garage/studio of John Abraham. It was traditional rock record making - AECHO
//ABOUT THE RESPONSE: Good. Really good. Actually, it’s been the response I had hoped for. People are saying it’s refreshing, that’s nice. We tried to buck the trend with the current in modern music being the way it is. It’s really cool to see all these people noticing us and getting it. It’s really great. - AECHO
