Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True by Fair to Midland

Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True, Fair to Midland's third full-length album, arrived on June 12, 2007, and after two records they had put out themselves, it was the Texas band's first shot on a major label. The door was opened by Serj Tankian, whose Serjical Strike imprint at Universal Republic signed them, and David Bottrill produced.

The title alone tells you these guys weren't built for brevity. This is alternative metal with a taste for the theatrical and the tangled, Darroh Sudderth out front as the band twists through songs with names like "Dance of the Manatee" and "Tall Tales Taste Like Sour Grapes", both of which made the U.S. rock charts. The album cracked the Billboard 200, but the band and Serjical Strike eventually parted ways, and Arrows and Anchors didn't surface until 2011.

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