What Are You So Scared Of?

What Are You So Scared Of?
Studio album by Tonight Alive
Released 14 October 2011 (2011-10-14)
14 February 2012 (2012-02-14) (US)
28 September 2012 (2012-09-28) (UK)
Genre Pop punk, emo-pop
Length 43:51
Label Sony Music Australia
Fearless (re-release)
Search and Destroy (UK)
Producer Mark Trombino
Tonight Alive chronology
Consider This
(2010)		 What Are You So Scared Of?
(2011)		 The Other Side
(2013)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk70%[1]
Punknews.org[2]

What Are You So Scared Of? is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Tonight Alive, released on 14 October 2011 through Sony Music Australia. Tonight Alive traveled to Los Angeles to record the album with producer Mark Trombino (blink-182, Jimmy Eat World, Midtown). As the follow-up to 2010's Consider This EP, What Are You So Scared Of? debuted on the Australian albums chart at No. 15. The record's first official single, "Starlight", was released 1 July 2011. Its second, "Let It Land", was released 19 September 2011.

After signing a deal contract with Fearless Records in Autumn 2011, the band released a re-issue of the album in the United States in February 2012.[3] Upon its US release, it debuted at No. 7 on the US Heatseekers Albums chart, No. 48 on US Rock Albums and No. 10 on Independent Albums.

Tonight Alive toured Australia and North America year-long in support of the album, and made an appearance at Warped Tour 2012 in the US. The band reached success in the scene through constant touring and building up a devoted fanbase. The standard CD version of What Are You So Scared Of? contains 10 pre-gap hidden acoustic takes of the album. Let It Land EP was released to accompany it; it shares the track "Let It Land", and also contains a new song and the three acoustic versions which were unable to fit on WAYSSO?.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Jenna McDougall and Whakaio Taahi. 

Australian release[4]
No. Title Length
1. "Eject, Eject, Eject!"   1:29
2. "Breaking & Entering"   3:32
3. "Starlight"   3:23
4. "Sure as Hell"   3:06
5. "Let It Land"   3:34
6. "Fake It"   3:16
7. "Listening"   2:55
8. "Reason to Sing"   2:55
9. "Safe & Sound"   3:17
10. "Thank You & Goodnight" (featuring Mark Hoppus) 3:04
11. "Amelia"   3:38
12. "In the First Place"   2:41
13. "To Die For"   3:25
14. "What Are You So Scared Of?"   3:36
Total length:
 43:51

Let It Land

The Let It Land EP is the accompanying disc to What Are You So Scared Of?, available on CD. What Are You So Scared Of? features 10 pre-gap hidden acoustic tracks in addition to the 14-track album; the additional acoustic tracks that were unable to fit on the album make up the majority of Let It Land. Also included on the EP is a new song, "Welcome".[6]

  1. "Let It Land"
  2. "Welcome"
  3. "Fake It" (acoustic)
  4. "Listening" (acoustic)
  5. "Reason to Sing" (acoustic)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2011) Peak
position
Australia[7] 15
US Heatseekers Albums[8] 7
US Rock Albums[8] 48
US Independent Albums[8] 32
UK Albums Chart[9] 172

References

  1. ↑ Nassiff, Thomas (14 October 2011). "Tonight Alive - What Are You So Scared Of?". AbsolutePunk. Retrieved 15 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Daley, Sloane (24 October 2011). "Tonight Alive - What Are You So Scared Of?". Punknews.org. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  3. ↑ . Tonightaliveofficial.com (2 January 2012). Retrieved in January 2012.
  4. ↑ . Tonightaliveofficial.com
  5. ↑ .Tonightaliveofficial.com. Retrieved on 31 March 2012.
  6. ↑ Let It Land. JB Hi-Fi. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
  7. ↑ australian-charts.com Hung Medien. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
  8. 1 2 3 What Are You So Scared Of? - Tonight Alive Billboard. Retrieved 30 August 2012
  9. ↑ "Chart Log UK - 2012". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 7 April 2014.

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