| From Them, Through Us, to You | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Madina Lake |
| Cover: | MadinaLakeCDartwork.jpg |
| Released: | March 26, 2007 |
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| Length: | 48:44 |
| Label: | Roadrunner |
| Producer: | Mark Trombino |
| Prev Title: | The Disappearance of Adalia |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | Attics to Eden |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
From Them, Through Us, to You is the debut album by Chicago-based rock band Madina Lake. The album was released in the United States on March 27, 2007, via Roadrunner Records; it was released a day earlier in the UK.
The album debuted at number 154 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart, number three on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart, and number 60 on the UK Albums Chart.
The first single off the album was "House of Cards", followed by "Here I Stand", "One Last Kiss" and "Pandora", all of which have music videos.
AllMusic stated that "The in-your-face intensity on tracks like the opening anthemic rocker "Here I Stand" is balanced by a tight sense of vocal harmony and an infectious melodicism that prevails most of the way through. It juxtaposes harsh background vocals with a heavy grooving drumbeat. If you like your music loud, take a dip in Madina Lake, bang your head and have a blast!" Sputnikmusic felt that "On paper, it reads just like a form of angst-filled high school poetry and with Nathan's nasally voice screeching and defecating the lyrics, it just makes it all that worse. This had the potential to be a great album but falls short by quite a margin."
MusicOMH said: "It's an album beset with clunking visuals and broader-than-thou riffs, complementing twin brother Nathan's expansive, excessive vocals tenfold to a beating post-hardcore centre." AbsolutePunk.net wrote: "From Them, Through Us, to You is an album that offers a glimpse into the nature of Madina Lake, people, and society and places them to hard rock music laced with electronica and pop undertones. This blend of melody and aggression is the same kind that has launched the band's peers onto the fast track of success, and may very well do the same for Madina Lake."
For unknown reasons, the iTunes release includes the whole advanced track listing with "The Auspice" but "Now or Never", "Morning Sadness" and "True Love" are omitted with the advanced version lengths not the retail lengths. The iTunes version also indicates three segues in the subtitles of two songs ("Pandora" and "True Love"; "True Love" has two segues) but the tracks appear the same as in the advanced version.
The song "Again & Again" was available for free download on the band's website shortly after the release of the album through a Flash-based game that tied into the fictional story of Madina Lake.
| Peak position | ||
| US Billboard 200[1] | 154 |
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