Common Courtesy | ||||
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Released | October 8, 2013 | |||
Studio | Jeremy McKinnon's home studio, Orlando, Florida | |||
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Length | 53:11 | |||
Label | ADTR | |||
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A Day to Remember chronology | ||||
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Singles from Common Courtesy | ||||
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Common Courtesy is the fifth studio album by American rock band A Day to Remember. The album was self-released on October 8, 2013. Songs for the album were written in mid-2011. Recording started in early 2012 and continued into the following March, the same month the recordings were mixed. During that time, an unmixed version of "Violence (Enough Is Enough)" was streamed from the band's website. The band then embarked on the Right Back at It Again Tour in March 2013, with the namesake of the tour being the new song which was performed at each show. From mid-August to late-September, the group released webisodes to tie-in with the album. "Dead & Buried", another song that would appear on the album, was played at each show on their month-long House Party Tour, which began in September 2013.
In December 2011, the band was involved in a lawsuit with its label Victory that had been partly resolved a few days before the album's release. This lawsuit led to the band's initial digital self-release of the album in October; a physical release followed in November which included three bonus tracks. Common Courtesy charted at number 34 in the UK and number 37 in the U.S., and was met with critical acclaim, with critics praising the album's consistent sound and defiant attitude toward Victory. "Right Back at It Again" and "End of Me" served as the album's singles; the former charted at number 33 on the Alternative Songs chart and at number 40 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart in the U.S., while the latter reached at number 40 on Alternative Songs and at number 26 on Mainstream Rock Songs.