There Is a Way is the second full-length studio album by Dananananaykroyd

Dananananaykroyd

Dananananaykroyd was a six-piece, self-dubbed 'Fight Pop' band formed in 2006 in Glasgow, Scotland. Their name is a play on the name of Canadian actor Dan Aykroyd...

 and was released on June 13, 2011 through the band's own Pizza College label. It was recorded in Venice, California, United States with Ross Robinson

Ross Robinson

Ross Robinson, son of Byron Katie, is an American multi-platinum music producer, who has discovered successful acts such as Korn, At the Drive-In, Glassjaw, Repeater, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit. Robinson has also worked with Machine Head, Vanilla Ice, The Cure, Sepultura and many others...

 over Winter 2010.

The conceptual artwork was designed by Erik Hamline at Steady Print Shop Co. in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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Recording

The album was recorded over November and December of 2010 at Ross' home studio on Venice Beach. The small studio had previously been used by Klaxons

Klaxons

Klaxons are a British indie rock band, based in London. Following the release of numerous 7-inch singles on different independent record labels, as well as the success of previous singles "Magick" and "Golden Skans", the band released their debut album, Myths of the Near Future on 29 January 2007....

 and Korn

Korn

Korn is an American nu metal band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The current band line up includes four members: Jonathan Davis, James "Munky" Shaffer, Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu, and Ray Luzier. The band was formed as an expansion of L.A.P.D.The band released their first demo album,...

 and has a small 8'x8' live room where all the parts were played live to analogue tape. The band done 2 days of pre-production with Robinson where they rearranged 5 of the 11 songs that were to make up the album and before recording the group would spend hours talking over the song's meaning.

While cycling one morning, vocalist John Baillie Jnr found a busker playing saxophone and invited him to the studio to play on the album, he can be heard at the intro to E Numbers and the outro of Think and Feel. While the saxophonist was recording the band surrounded him, screamed and threw things at him to distract him because they felt he was playing too perfectly. A video of this can be seen on guitarist Duncan Robertson's Vimeo

Vimeo

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All guitars were recorded without re-amp

Re-amp

Reamping is a process often used in multitrack recording in which a recorded signal is routed back out of the editing environment and run through external processing or reverb chamber...

ing, any automation was performed live on old guitar pedals that were also used on Robinson's previous records such as Relationship of Command

Relationship of Command

Relationship of Command is the third and final studio album by the post-hardcore band At the Drive-In, and was released in September 2000. The band reached mainstream success through the album, if only for a short time before their indefinite break-up....

 and ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn

...Burn, Piano Island, Burn

Re-issue Bonus Tracks# "Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon" # "Pink Tarantulas"- Performers :* Jordan Blilie – Vocals* Mark Gajadhar – drums* Morgan Henderson – bass, Nord II, piano, G4* Cody Votolato – guitar...

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Throughout the recording one of the band's favourite films American Movie

American Movie

American Movie: The Making of Northwestern is a 1999 documentary directed by Chris Smith. The film chronicles the real 1996-1997 making of Coven, an independent horror film directed by an independent filmmaker named Mark Borchardt...

 was played on a loop in the studio, it's been on a loop in Robinson's studio since 2003.

Personnel

Vocals - John Baillie Jnr and Calum Gunn

Guitars - David Roy and Duncan Robertson

Bass Guitar - Ryan McGinness

Drums - Paul Carlin



Additional saxophone by Juan Del Rio



Produced and mixed by Ross Robinson

Ross Robinson

Ross Robinson, son of Byron Katie, is an American multi-platinum music producer, who has discovered successful acts such as Korn, At the Drive-In, Glassjaw, Repeater, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit. Robinson has also worked with Machine Head, Vanilla Ice, The Cure, Sepultura and many others...

Track listing

1. "Reboot" (burst the mystery box)
2. "All Us Authors" (get on the skateboard)
3. "E Numbers" (the new news)
4. "Think and Feel" (shake it up/walk it off)
5. "Muscle Memory" (let the outside in)
6. "Time Capsule" (give yourself of the past a gift from the future)
7. "Good Time" (answer the door)
8. "Apostrophe" (wake up the shock-hunting specters)
9. "Seven Days Late" (lie detector)
10. "Glee Cells Trade" (lymphatics and m.e.)
11. "Make a Fist" (own it)

HMV Exclusive 2 Disc Edition with bonus "Shrapnel!" EP

1. Bodies Like Holes
2. Wow
3. Searchlight
4. Song Six
5. Cameo

Shrapnel! EP

A collection of There is a Way leftovers were released as an exclusive bonus disk for HMV in the UK. They were recorded in Cava Studios in Glasgow

Glasgow

Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

in early 2011 over 3 days.