Scrappy Happiness

Scrappy Happiness is an album by Joel Plaskett Emergency released on March 27, 2012.[1] The album followed a unique release strategy, in which the band recorded one song each week for ten weeks, immediately releasing it for airplay on CBC Radio 2 and CBC Radio 3 and to iTunes for sale as a single, before releasing the 10 songs as a complete album in conventional formats on March 27.[1]

Scrappy Happiness
Studio album by
Joel Plaskett Emergency
ReleasedMarch 27, 2012
RecordedJanuary–March, 2012
GenreIndie rock
LabelMapleMusic Recordings
ProducerJoel Plaskett
Joel Plaskett Emergency chronology
EMERGENCYs, false alarms, shipwrecks, castaways, fragile creatures, special features, demons and demonstrations
(2011)		 Scrappy Happiness
(2012)		 The Park Avenue Sobriety Test
(2015)

Tour

Following the album's full release, Plaskett toured to support the album with supporting act Frank Turner.[1]

The album was named as a longlisted nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize on June 14, 2012.[2]

Reception

Commercial performance

The album has debuted at number 52 on the Canadian Albums Chart.[3]

Track listing

In order of release:

  1. "You're Mine" - 3:59
  2. "Harbour Boys" - 3:26
  3. "Old Friends" - 4:08
  4. "Slow Dance" - 3:49
  5. "North Star" - 4:54
  6. "Somewhere Else" - 2:27
  7. "I'm Yours" - 3:33
  8. "Tough Love" - 3:42
  9. "Time Flies" - 3:50
  10. "Lightning Bolt" - 6:34

As sequenced on record:

  1. "Lightning Bolt" - 6:34
  2. "Harbour Boys" - 3:26
  3. "You're Mine" - 3:59
  4. "Tough Love" - 3:42
  5. "Slow Dance" - 3:49
  6. "Time Flies" - 3:50
  7. "Somewhere Else" - 2:27
  8. "Old Friends" - 4:08
  9. "I'm Yours" - 3:33
  10. "North Star" - 4:54
gollark: But not split proportionally *by area* or something.
gollark: It might make more sense split proportionally and not winner-takes-all, which I'm pretty sure is the case now.
gollark: That would be rebalancing it even more ridiculously arbitrarily.
gollark: What, not statewise?
gollark: Like most of these things.

References
  1. "Joel Plaskett's Announces 'Scrappy Happiness' LP, Canadian Tour with Frank Turner". Exclaim!, January 6, 2012.
  2. "Polaris Prize long list includes lots of Toronto bands". Toronto Star, June 14, 2012.
  3. http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html


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