The Burning Hour Explained

The Burning Hour
Type:	studio
Artist:	Test Your Reflex
Cover:	TYR_The_Burning_Hour_mini.jpg
Genre:	Indie rock/pop, Alternative rock
Length:	49:13
Label:	RCA Records
Producer:	Pat Regan, Ryan Levine, Karl Louis

The Burning Hour is the debut album from California indie rock band Test Your Reflex. It was released on April 24, 2007 on RCA Records. It peaked at No. 46 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart (week of May 12, 2007)^[1]
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Track listing

1. I'm Not Sorry (5:09)
2. Pieces of the Sun (3:45)
3. Thinking of You (3:37)
4. New Year (3:53)
5. I Am Alive (5:11)
6. Black Hearts (3:17)
7. Do We Belong (4:36)
8. I Won't Follow (4:29)
9. This Year (If We Fall in Love) (3:47)
10. I Know You're Lonely (4:26)
11. Painted Red (7:04)

Quotes

Making of
"We wrote for two years before we went into the studio, and we were really inspired by records that sounded big. We started out listening to a lot of danceable stuff, but we'd always go back to U2's Joshua Tree and Peter Gabriel's So -- two albums that are just rock solid from beginning to end and that just go for it. Because of that, we didn't shy away from big choruses or big production -- we wanted every song to be a journey." - Ryan Levine (The Official Homepage of RCA Records https://web.archive.org/web/20090201025400/http://www.rcarecords.com/artists.php#Test+Your+Reflex)

Album Review
CMJ (p. 43) - "Embracing the playful pity and sultry tenderness of iconic Cure, this SoCal combo produces consistently invigorating tracks..."https://web.archive.org/web/20110519102640/http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=977920

Videos

Pieces of the Sun (YouTube) ^[2]

Notes and References

1. Billboard Top Heatseekers . . 2007-05-12 .
2. Web site: Pieces of the Sun video . . 2007-02-05 .