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| Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge | ||||
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| Released | 1 March 2004 | |||
| Recorded | Magic Shop, New York City | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 39:48 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Dave Sardy | |||
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| NME |   [1] |
Shatterproof Is Not a Challenge is the second studio album by English alternative rock band Hundred Reasons, released on 1 March 2004, through Columbia Records.
Following the album's release, the band were dropped by Columbia Records. In 2006 guitarist Larry Hibbitt stated that:
there were a lot of things that were wrong with [the album]. A lot of it was to do with the fact that we had absolutely no working relationship with the label by the time it came out. There was loads of pressure to get Shatterproof out and get the ball rolling again. They just wanted a record - any record. It just got put out and forgotten about. It still sold 65,000 but nobody quite seems to realise that.[2]
On the official Hundred Reasons message board, guitarist Paul Townsend responded to a poll asking which of the band's first albums were better:
I think this topic might be easier to answer if I wasn't in the band. Both albums had there ups and downs, good and bad memories. I was much more confident with Shatterproof. With Ideas we were doing everything for the first time, we learned a lot. With Shatterproof we were so keen to move forward we never really focused on the things we got right (silly buggers). I think we got bits right on both albums, but naturally not everything. So again, we learned a lot.[3]
"Still Be Here" is about singer Colin Doran reconnecting with his father, whom he had not seen for six years.
The album reached number twenty in the UK Albums Chart, and was number one on Radio 1's Rock Album Chart.
- ^ "NME Album Reviews - Hundred Reasons : Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge". Nme.Com. 4 March 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
- ^ Rauf, Raziq (9 February 2006). "Hundred Reasons: not out / In Depth // Drowned In Sound". Drownedinsound.com. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2012.
- ^ "Hundred Reasons ::". www.hundredreasons.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2022.