The Glass Passenger by Jack's Mannequin

The Glass Passenger, Jack's Mannequin's second album, was released on Sire on September 30, 2008, and it's the sound of Andrew McMahon coming back from the brink. The Something Corporate frontman had just finished Everything in Transit when doctors found acute lymphoblastic leukemia in mid-2005; writer's block hung on until the middle of 2006, and much of this record was written in the second half of 2007.

McMahon produced it with Jim Wirt, CJ Eiriksson co-producing, mostly at 4th Street Recording and Sound City in California, and for the first time he made a record with the band in the room. Label trouble pushed him onto a sabbatical in January 2008 before Sire stepped in. The music is power pop in the Ben Folds and Bruce Hornsby vein, and the songs are about surviving and seeing the world with fresh eyes. "The Resolution" led the way, and the album opened at number eight on the Billboard 200 with 49,000 copies sold in its first week.

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