Album · Alkaline Trio
This Addiction by Alkaline Trio
This Addiction is an album by Alkaline Trio, released in 2010. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 3 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “This Addiction”, on 3 lists with a best position of #69.
This Addiction, Alkaline Trio's seventh studio album, came out on February 23, 2010, the first release on the band's own Heart & Skull label, run together with Epitaph. After the bigger, glossier records of the Epic years, the Chicago trio went home to Atlas Studios and to Matt Allison, the producer behind much of their early material, and ripped off the extra layers. What's left is punk rock with the gloom intact: Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano trading lead vocals over tight, fast guitar and bass, and Derek Grant hammering underneath.
The songs come straight out of the members' own lives, digging through addiction, grief, divorce, death and suicide, with love, war and politics in the mix too, sung with a hook in every chorus. It paid off: the album debuted at 11 on the Billboard 200, the highest chart placing of their career, and hit number one on the rock, independent and alternative album charts.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from This Addiction on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This Addiction | 3 | #69 | – | 2010 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.