| Lunch. Drunk. Love. | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Bowling for Soup |
| Cover: | Lunch Drunk Love cover.gif |
| Released: | September 10, 2013[1] |
| Recorded: | Panhandle House Studios Denton, Texas The Daycare Highland Village, Texas The Tackle Box Hollywood, California |
| Genre: | Pop punk[2] |
| Length: | 41:40 |
| Producer: | Jarinus (Linus of Hollywood & Jaret Reddick) |
| Prev Title: | The Dollyrots vs. Bowling for Soup |
| Prev Year: | 2011 |
| Next Title: | Songs People Actually Liked – Volume 1 |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
Lunch. Drunk. Love is the ninth studio album by the American rock band Bowling for Soup, released on September 10, 2013, through Brando Records and Que-so. The album was completely fan-funded,[3] as well as being released on the band's own record label like their previous album. The band has released music videos for the songs "Real", "Right About Now", "Envy" and "Circle". "Circle" is also the first single off this record. The album charted at number 142 on the Billboard 200.
In an interview with Distorted Sound, Reddick stated "'Lunch. Drunk. Love.' people refer to as my divorce record and it was pretty angry, and there’s just a lot of emotions on there that you’re not used to hearing from Bowling For Soup."[4]
Within 48 hours, 500 pledges were received[5] and in less than 7 days Reddick announced "Dude, you guys killed it...In less than 7 days, you guys made this all happen!!! Could not be happier, and more excited..."[6] As the goal was reached Reddick gave pledgers a video of an early acoustic version of the song "Since We Broke Up". Chandler finished recording bass on May 10, 2013. It was announced that on day 10 in the recording studio the drums are done. Tracking and recording at the Daycare was officially wrapped up in May and that the songs will be sent to mixing. On June 11, 2013, pledgers received an update regarding the album's title and that they would get to vote on what the album should be named. The band released the official title and cover for the new album on June 20, and the album was sent to be mastered on July 15. More artwork was released in August along with lyric videos for "Envy", "Rooftops", "Real", and "Right About Now", as well as videos for "I am Waking Up Today", "Since We Broke Up", and Circle" releasing throughout September. The campaign closed on September 4, 2013 with attaining 3579 pledges and a finished goal of 249%.[7]
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