Album · The Temper Trap
Conditions by The Temper Trap
Conditions is an album by The Temper Trap, released in 2009. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 72 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Sweet Disposition”, on 49 lists with a best position of #2.
Conditions, the Temper Trap's debut, came out through Liberation Music in Australia on 19 June 2009 and in Britain that August, and it's the sound of a Melbourne band that had packed up for London the year before and was thinking big. Dougy Mandagi, Jonathon Aherne and Toby Dundas had started the group in 2005, Lorenzo Sillitto was on guitar, and Jim Abbiss produced, stretching their guitars into a widescreen shimmer under Mandagi's soaring voice.
"Sweet Disposition" was the engine: it went to number six in the UK, pulled the album to 25 on the British chart and won Most Popular Australian Single at the 2010 ARIA Awards, where the band also took Best Group. At home the album debuted at number nine and went platinum. "Science of Fear" found its way into FIFA 10 and DiRT 2, and "Fader" into Test Drive Unlimited 2.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Conditions on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweet Disposition | 49 | #2 | – | 2009–2026 | |
| 2 | Fader | 20 | #15 | – | 2009–2014 | |
| 3 | Science of Fear | 1 | #48 | – | 2009 | |
| 4 | Love Lost | 2 | #58 | – | 2009–2011 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.