This Little Empire
This Little Empire is the second studio album by New Zealand rock band Zed. It was produced by Sylvia Massy Shivy and Zed at Radiostar Studios in Weed, California, and engineered by Rich Veltrop and assisted by Josh Kiser.[1] Unlike the band's debut 2000 release, Silencer, This Little Empire was predominately produced for the American market, with a US edition and a New Zealand edition released. The track listing for the US edition contains tracks taken from their debut album. The album was released to the New Zealand market on November 11, 2003; and released internationally on August 23, 2004, via Interscope Records.
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| Released | November 11, 2003 (NZ) August 23, 2004 (US) | |||
| Recorded | Radiostar Studios | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 42:42 | |||
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Chart performance
This Little Empire debuted in the Official New Zealand Top 40 Albums chart on November 9, 2003. It spent three weeks within the top ten and peaked at #4. The album spent a total of 13 weeks on the chart.[2]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Downtown" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:11 |
| 2. | "Hard to Find Her" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed, Martin Kierszenbaum | 3:03 |
| 3. | "Don't Worry Baby" | B. Wilson, R. Christian | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 2:34 |
| 4. | "Better On Your Own" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 2:22 |
| 5. | "Starlight" | R. Cuomo | Zed, Malcolm Welsford | 2:53 |
| 6. | "Bleeding On the Radio" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:17 |
| 7. | "Baby's Got Me Up" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:10 |
| 8. | "Firefly" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:16 |
| 9. | "Postcard" | Zed, M. Barus | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 4:01 |
| 10. | "She Glows" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 4:21 |
| 11. | "Think It Over" | Zed, C. Brooks | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 4:04 |
| 12. | "Did Nobody Tell You" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:55 |
| 13. | "Holding Out" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 2:45 |
| Total length: | 42:42 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Hard to Find Her" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed, Martin Kierszenbaum | 3:03 |
| 2. | "Don't Worry Baby" | B. Wilson, R. Christian | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 2:34 |
| 3. | "Renegade Fighter" | N. King, B. Campbell | David Nicholas | 3:21 |
| 4. | "Better On Your Own" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 2:22 |
| 5. | "Starlight" | R. Cuomo | Zed, Malcolm Welsford | 2:53 |
| 6. | "Glorafilia" | B. Campbell, N. King, A. Palmer | David Nicholas | 3:20 |
| 7. | "Baby's Got Me Up" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:10 |
| 8. | "She Glows" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 4:21 |
| 9. | "Holding Out" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 2:45 |
| 10. | "Think It Over" | Zed, C. Brooks | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 4:04 |
| 11. | "Bleeding On the Radio" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:17 |
| 12. | "Downtown" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:11 |
| 13. | "Firefly" | Zed | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:16 |
| 14. | "I'm Cold (2004 album version)" | N. King, B. Campbell | Sylvia Massy Shivy, Zed | 3:49 |
| Total length: | 45:17 | |||
Personnel
- Zed
- Nathan King – vocals, guitar
- Ben Campbell – bass, vocals
- Andrew "Andy" Lynch – guitar, vocals, engineering
- Adrian Palmer – drums, percussion
- Production
- Sylvia Massy Shivy – producer
- Rich Veltrop – engineering
- Josh Kiser - assistant engineer
- Clint Murphy – additional engineering
- Rivers Cuomo – composer
- Brian Wilson – composer
- Roger Christian – composer
- C. Brooks – composer
- M. Barus – composer
- Clif Norrell – mixing
- Robert Orton – mixing (track 2)
- Martin Kierszenbaum – additional production (track 2)
- Malcolm Welsford – producer, engineering, mixing (track 5)
- George Marino – mastering (track 5)
- Additional personnel
- Martin Kierszenbaum – A&R director
- Andrea Ruffalo – A&R co-ordinator
- Robert Hayes – management
- A. Kim Guggenheim – legal representative
- Steve Strange – agent
- Kevin Soh – concept, art direction and design
- Simon Oosterdijk – concept, art direction and design
- Aaron K. – photography
- Karen Inderbitzen-Waller – styling
Credits for This Little Empire adapted from liner notes.[1]
gollark: * commented
gollark: It's all public and (not that well, to be honest) commeted.
gollark: MIT-licensed, you can fork it.
gollark: Look, the main code is all right here, other stuff is... well, it's spread across a lot of files, but you can see it, check the `local files = whatever` bit and my pastebin account.
gollark: https://pastebin.com/RM13UGFa
References
- This Little Empire (CD liner notes). Zed. Interscope Records. 2003.
- "This Little Empire - Zed - Top 40 Albums". muzic.net.nz. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
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