Arrows & Anchors is the fourth studio album by Texas progressive rock band Fair to Midland

Fair to Midland

Fair to Midland is an American progressive metal band that formed in 1998 and is based in Dallas, Texas. They are currently signed to E1 Music. According to the band's official website, their name comes from "...an old Texan play on the term 'fair to middling'." The band produced two self-released...

. After being pushed back from June, the band has announced, via their website, that the album would be released on July 12, 2011 by E1 Music in North America. In Europe, the record was released via Season of Mist

Season of Mist

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 the day before. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Joe Barresi

Joe Barresi

Joe Barresi is an American record engineer and producer who has worked with bands such as Kyuss, The Melvins, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Coheed and Cambria, Tomahawk, L7, The Jesus Lizard, Parkway Drive and Bad Religion.-Biography:...

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On April 4, the band debuted the album's first single, "Musical Chairs," on the website ArtistDirect.com. It became available on iTunes

ITunes

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 on April 18. On May 19 the band released the track "Amarillo Sleeps on My Pillow" for free download on their website.

Tracklist

European limited edition and US ITunes bonus track

US ITunes and Official Website Pre-order bonus track

Official Website Pre-order bonus track

On iTunes each of the tracks have 2 seconds of silence at the end of them

Outtakes

No further tracks were recorded for the album, however several songs were considered for the album during pre-production:

• The song "Bravo Sierra", performed live once in August 2010 at Tree's in Dallas Texas. It did not make the album cut.
• The titles "The Dead Sea", "Ember Rose" and "Babe Ruthe" (reportedly re-titled to "God Save Us") can be seen written on the band's pre-production tracklist.

Personnel

• Darroh Sudderth - vocals, banjo
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• Cliff Campbell - guitar
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• Jon Dicken - bass guitar
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• Matt Langley - keyboards, marxophone
  Marxophone
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• Brett Stowers - drums