So-Called Chaos

Occupation

  • Song: Alanis Morissette
  • Acoustic Guitar: Joel Shearer
  • Electric Guitar: David Levita, Jason Orme
  • Electric guitar, Keyboard: John Shanks
  • Keyboard: Jamie Muhoberac
  • Piano, Keyboards, Vibraphone: Zac Rae
  • Bass: Paul Bushnell, Tim Thorney
  • Drums: Kenny Aronoff, Blair Sinta

Studios

  • Groove Masters, Santa Monica
  • The Village Recorder, Los Angeles
  • Henson Studios, Los Angeles
  • Stage and Sound, Los Angeles

So-Called Chaos is published on 17 May 2004 sixth studio album by the American- Canadian singer Alanis Morissette. In the album, the songs were all written by herself, she handles the romance with the Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, with whom she became engaged to later. The album was recorded in 2003 in various studios in the California cities of Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

Charts success

The album debuted at number two on the Canadian album charts with 11,200 sales, as well as number five on the U.S. Billboard Top 200 with 115,000 copies sold in the first week after publication. 887,000 albums sold in its first week worldwide. 470,000 albums were sold in the United States until September 2008. The second published outside the United States single was after the Out Is Through, but had only moderate success in the UK. The second U.S. single was Eight Easy Steps, despite the elaborate music video but could not place in the Top 100 chart. Excuses was released as a radio single in Brazil.

Title list

The German edition of the album contains only ten tracks, while other editions with bonus tracks or multimedia files are added.

Reception

Alexander Cordas looks at laut.de a " positive underlying trend " than in previous albums and says " The shift in thinking results in a more subdued emotion, but this does not mean that she is content with superficialities. " Morissette could " conflicts now also abgewinnen positive side, where she was just frustrated and angry before. " positive, it evaluates their unconventionality and that the" cliché ballad was not only once in sight. " Alanis go " in most of the tracks the shallow tones out of the way " and has " made ​​free from shackles of the past ." The once " angry young lady from " Jagged Little Pill "times is a confident woman given way, which seems to have found their peace."

Stephen Thomas Erlewine said at the All Music Guide, " [ ... ] she's Certainly never recorded an album where she Seems so in love and at peace as she has with her fourth album, So-Called Chaos. " ( ... She certainly never an album recorded, in which they so in love appears as their fourth album, so -. called chaos). "[ ... ] but as to overall record, it 's her most satisfying since her blockbuster breakthrough" ( all in all it is their best album since her breakthrough )

In Culture Culture News Magazine says " [ ... ] with their fourth album, they may loose mitrocken in the first guard again. [ ... ] It is wilder and less thoughtfully than the last two plates " The Q Magazine verdict: ". . The most solid collection of AOR (Adult Oriented skirt) you're likely to encounter this year " ( The most solid collection of AOR, which will meet them this year. ) and evaluated it with " 3 of 5 stars ."

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