(Sire) Jack's Mannequin, led by singer-keyboardist Andrew McMahon, will release its second album, entitled The Glass Passenger, on September 30th, 2008 on Sire/Warner Bros. Records.Co-produced by McMahon and Jim Wirt (Incubus, Hoobastank), The Glass Passenger is the follow-up to the band's debut Everything in Transit, which was released in August 2005 and debuted at No. 37 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart.
Like that album, The Glass Passenger was written and recorded over the course of nearly two years with McMahon going into the studio whenever inspiration struck. As a result, McMahon describes the album as "a bizarre balance between present and past. I was trying to use the music to sort through and reconcile with the adversity of my past."
While The Glass Passenger is essentially autobiographical, the album is not meant to serve as a direct description of McMahon's life. "My past is my past and a lot of this record is about that," he says "but it's also about trying to write myself out of it. This is a record about trying to get well. It's about getting out from underneath something. I want people to receive the music for what it is and not have to contextualize it against my own personal battle."
Jack's Mannequin, which McMahon formed in 2004 with guitarist Bobby Anderson, bassist Jonathan Sullivan, and drummer Jay McMillan in Orange County, CA, has been busy touring this year, including an appearance at the Bamboozle Festival in May. They have performed a series of acoustic shows on this year's Vans Warped Tour, and will hit the road with Paramore on July 28th.
The track-listing for The Glass Passenger is as follows:
"Crashin"
"Spinning"
"Swim"
"American Love"
"What Gets You Off"
"Suicide Blonde"
"Annie Use Your Telescope"
"Bloodshot"
"Hammers and Strings (A Lullaby)"
"Drop Out - The So Unknown"
"Orphans"
"The Resolution"
"Caves"
Tour Dates
* w/ Paramore
7/28 Grand Sierra Theatre - Reno, NV *
7/29 Henderson Pavillion - Henderson, NV *
7/30 Pacific Amphitheatre - Costa Mesa, CA *
8/01 Concerts On The Green - San Diego, CA *
8/02 Mesa Amphitheatre - Mesa, AZ *
8/03 Sunshine Theatre - Albuquerque, NM
8/05 Riverfest Amphitheatre - Little Rock, AR *
8/06 The Sugarmill - New Orleans, LA *
8/07 Mud Island Amphitheatre - Memphis, TN *
8/08 Bogart's - Cincinnati, OH
8/10 The Pageant - St Louis, MO
8/12 Congress Theatre - Chicago, IL *
8/13 Freedom Hill Amphitheatre - Sterling Heights, MI *
8/15 Festival Pier at Penn's Landing - Philadelphia, PA *
8/16 Asbury Park Convention Hall - Asbury Park, NJ *
8/17 Providence Piers - Providence, RI *
8/19 Crocodile Rock - Allentown, PA
8/20 Town Ballroom - Buffalo, NY
8/22 Metropolis - Montreal, Quebec *
8/23 Kool Haus - Toronto, Ontario *
8/24 Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre - Cleveland, OH *
8/26 Minnesota State Fair Grandstand - St Paul, MN *
8/28 Rumsey Playfield - New York, NY *
8/29 NTELOS Pavilion at Harbor Center - Portsmouth, VA *
8/30 Chevrolet Theatre - Wallingford, CT *
