Seven's Travels Explained

Seven's Travels
Type:Album
Artist:Atmosphere
Border:yes
Released:September 23, 2003
Genre:Hip hop
Length:70:31
Label:Rhymesayers / Epitaph
Producer:Ant
Prev Title:God Loves Ugly
Prev Year:2002
Next Title:You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Next Year:2005

Seven's Travels is the third studio album by the Minneapolis hip hop group Atmosphere, their first and only for Epitaph. It was released on September 23, 2003. "Trying to Find a Balance" and "National Disgrace" were released as singles and music videos were made for both.

Background

The original cover features a naked, bare-breasted woman laying in a field.[1] It was changed to a plain white cover resembling The White Album due to the death of Marissa Mathy-Zvaifler, a 16-year-old girl who was murdered by a janitor during an Atmosphere show in Albuquerque, NM on July 16, 2003. The janitor, convicted child sex offender Dominic Akers, had led the girl backstage, claiming he would allow her to meet vocalist Sean Daley (aka Slug).[2] Slug dedicates the album to Zvaifler in the liner notes,[3] and later wrote about the incident and his reaction in a song entitled "That Night,[4] which appears on the 2005 album You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having. Slug would later describe the song as one he "wasn't supposed to write"[5] and marks the 2005 album as a whole as a beginning point of Slug's more positive storytelling in his music.[5] [6]

Release

On December 10, 2013, 3,000 limited edition vinyl pressings were released in celebration of the album's tenth anniversary. It uses the album's original cover art and contains bonus tracks.[7]

Track listing

All songs are produced by Ant.

Personnel

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seven's Travels Original Artwork. 31 May 2004. Flickr – Photo Sharing!.
  2. Web site: ABQjournal: Sunshine Theater Killer Gets Life. abqjournal.com.
  3. Web site: Images for Atmosphere (2) - Seven's Travels. Discogs.
  4. Web site: Atmosphere – That Night. Genius.
  5. Web site: A song Slug 'wasn't supposed to write' | Star Tribune . . 2013-10-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131017062842/http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/music/11507281.html . 2013-10-17 .
  6. Web site: Atmosphere's Slug Tells How the Rape and Murder of a Fan Changed His Music and His Life. SF Weekly.
  7. Web site: RECORD STORE DAY – Seven's Travels [3xLP 10 Year Anniversary Edition]]. recordstoreday.com.