Liberation Transmission by Lostprophets

Liberation Transmission, the third album from Pontypridd's Lostprophets, arrived on Visible Noise on 26 June 2006, and it was the first one made without original drummer Mike Chiplin. The band's dream replacement was Travis Barker; what they got, at producer Bob Rock's request, was Josh Freese, with newcomer Ilan Rubin drumming on "Everybody's Screaming!!!" and "For All These Times Son, for All These Times".

Rock gives the Welsh band's emo-leaning alternative rock a big, polished arena sheen: Lee Gaze and Mike Lewis stacking the guitars, Stuart Richardson's bass underneath, Jamie Oliver's keys and turntables colouring the edges and Ian Watkins singing to the back row. "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" went to American radio that May and became one of the band's two UK top-ten singles, and from late summer into autumn they headlined across the US with Kill Hannah, the Rasmus and Eighteen Visions in tow.

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