Leaving Through the Window by Something Corporate

Leaving Through the Window, Something Corporate's second album and their first for a major label, came out on May 21, 2002, as a joint release between Drive-Thru and MCA. The Laguna Niguel band had signed with MCA late in 2001 after their Audioboxer EP turned heads, and producer Jim Wirt spent three months with them cutting tracks in studios across California and Florida.

What sets it apart from the guitar-heavy pack of the day is Andrew McMahon's piano: these songs bounce and pound on the keys, with William Tell's guitar filling in the corners. Critics griped about the running time and McMahon's singing but gave his playing its due. It opened at number one on Billboard's Heatseekers chart, and "If You C Jordan", "Punk Rock Princess" and "I Woke Up in a Car" kept the band on the road, from the Warped Tour to dates with New Found Glory, through the rest of 2002.

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