Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow
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Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow, often shortened to No World For Tomorrow, is the fourth studio album by American prog
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band Coheed and Cambria
Coheed and Cambria
Coheed and Cambria is an American progressive rock band from Nyack, New York. Formed in 1995, the group incorporates aspects of progressive rock, punk rock, metal and post-hardcore....

, released on October 23, 2007. The album is a direct sequel to their previous album, Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness is the third studio album by prog quartet Coheed and Cambria. It was released on September 20, 2005...

. Together, these two albums comprise part four of band's Amory Wars
The Amory Wars
The Amory Wars, originally entitled The Bag.On.Line Adventures, is an ongoing series of comic books written by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez and published by Evil Ink Comics. The story of The Amory Wars is also the focus of the band's music...

narrative. It is the only album to feature Taylor Hawkins
Taylor Hawkins
Oliver Taylor Hawkins is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters....

 on drums, following the departure of Josh Eppard
Josh Eppard
Josh Eppard is an American musician from Kingston New York and the drummer for progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. He has worked as a solo rapper under the name Weerd Science and was the drummer for supergroup rock band Terrible Things...

.

The album is often marketed by the shortened title No World for Tomorrow. Neither the disc itself nor its outer packaging suggest the Good Apollo title, though it is found printed on the cover of the accompanying lyrics booklet, as well as the rim of the fourth side of the vinyl
LP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

 release. Frontman Claudio Sanchez has stated that the full name of the album is in fact Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow.

The album debuted on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

 album chart at #6, selling about 62,000 copies in its first week. It sold over 100,000 copies in its first month. As of January 2008, the record has sold over 350,000 copies, with 153,979 being sold in the US.

Formats

There are three formats of the album; a 'Deluxe Edition' which includes a bonus 24 minute documentary feature on "The Making of NWFT" with interviews, footage from the studio, three never before heard acoustic
Acoustic music
Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 demos (the other two from In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 had previously leaked), a booklet with scenes from The Amory Wars and over 50 photos from recent tours; a 'stripped' version, containing just the CD and a slip sleeve cover; and a 'double gatefold vinyl' version, in which the album comes on 2 LP
LP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...

s, featuring artwork by Ken Kelley. If pre-ordered, they would come with an autographed booklet but stock ran out the day after the prerelease was announced. Another promotional item, the No World for Tomorrow magnet, is still in stock.

Promotion

Leading up to the album's release, the songs "Mother Superior" and "The Running Free" were performed live on the band's tours. A July 2007
MTV
MTV
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 article described the album as more experimental in comparison to the band's previous efforts. Sanchez detailed that for some tracks he had experimented with unfamiliar instrumentation including organs and pianos, creating a sound he described as "Ray Charles
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson , known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records...

 on Quaaludes." Some parts initially written on piano were later converted into intricate guitar segments.

In late July 2007 "The Running Free" was announced as the album's first single, and it was released to radio on August 20. The song was streamed on the band's MySpace
MySpace
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 profile and was made available through digital distribution
Online music store
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 on August 14.

Also in July 2007 an official website was launched for the album. The site featured weekly updates including a competition, video segments, album artwork and announcements regarding "The Running Free" single and its accompanying music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

. A viral marketing
Viral marketing
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 video series entitled "The Willing Well" was released in five installments continuing until October 22.

In January 2008 a promotional website for the next single "Feathers" was created.

A guerilla marketing campaign took place in various locations across the country, including an incident on the University of Kansas campus in which someone spray painted the "Keywork" logo and the release date in several locations, resulting in a small panic related to a previous shooting on campus.

Critical reception

The album received mostly positive reviews, with a Metacritic
Metacritic
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 score of 69% based on 16 reviews. Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
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noted that the band "infuse their expansive music with enough grit and melody that you don't give a hoot what, say 'The Hound (of Blood & Rank)' is about" in a positive review in their October 2007 issue. Q
Q (magazine)
Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology...

remarked that the album was "accessible" and "hugely appealing" because of how the album is immersed in Claudio Sanchez
Claudio Sanchez
Claudio Paul Sanchez is an American writer and musician best known for being the lead singer and guitarist for the alternative/progressive rock group Coheed and Cambria. He is also the creator of the comic book series, The Amory Wars and Kill Audio, co-written with wife Chondra Echert...

's personal life. Mojo
Mojo (magazine)
MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music...

hailed "Feathers" as "unabashed radio-rock" while Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

connected it to Uriah Heep
Uriah Heep (band)
Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and regarded as a seminal classic hard rock act of the 1970s. Uriah Heep's progressive/art rock/heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and David Byron's operatic vocals...

's "Easy Livin'". Allmusic remarks "...listeners will find a number of enjoyable would-be singles..." as well as stating that "...the album is simple ear candy for those who haven't studied the band's previous releases." Blender
Blender (magazine)
Blender was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of celebrities....

voiced that "Coheed have found their sweet spot" and that they indulge "...in grandiose, classic-rock, flaunting chops that could shame the showoffs in Rush
Rush (band)
Rush is a Canadian rock band formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart...

".

On the other hand, The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club
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 claimed the album could "have been more inspired". Alternative Press in their November 2007 issue reported that the record "simply doesn't deliver on all the suspense that's been loaded into it and built up to." Others noted that the album sticks to a reliable formula that does not always help the progression of the album, especially with the outro of the last song "On the Brink" where they scream the word [Hail] numerous times. The Village Voice
The Village Voice
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laments that Coheed "slipped up" on this album.

Track listing

Deluxe edition bonus DVD

  1. "Mother Superior (Taylor Guitars Performance @ NAMM 07 - PCM Stereo)"
  2. "Kitchen Jam (PCM Stereo)"
  3. "Cuts Marked in the March of Men (Original Acoustic Demos - PCM Stereo)"
  4. "A Favor House Atlantic (Original Acoustic Demos - PCM Stereo)"
  5. "The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (Original Acoustic Demo - PCM Stereo)"
  6. "The Suffering (Original Acoustic Demo - PCM Stereo)"
  7. "Always & Never / Welcome Home (Original Acoustic Demo - PCM Stereo)"
  8. "Tour Photo Album (PCM Stereo)"
  9. "Always & Never / Welcome Home (AUDIO BED)"

180 Gram Vinyl

No World For Tomorrow is also available on 180 gram double LP vinyl pressed in Nashville's historic United Record Pressing. The first three sides feature the same songs as the CD version but the fourth side features etched artwork incorporating the band's logo. This is packaged in a double gatefold jacket. This version was also released on CD.
  • Side four contains no music but features etched art on the surface of the vinyl.

Singles

YearSingleChartPeak
position
2007 "The Running Free" U.S. Modern Rock Tracks
Modern Rock Tracks
Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...

19
2007 "The Running Free" U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks
Mainstream Rock Tracks
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...

31

Album

YearChartPeak
position
2007 Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

6
2007 Billboard Top Digital Albums 6
2007 Billboard Top Rock Albums 3
2007 Billboard Top Modern Rock/Alternative Albums 2
2007 Billboard Hard Rock 2
2007 Billboard Top Internet Albums 5

Personnel

  • Claudio Sanchez
    Claudio Sanchez
    Claudio Paul Sanchez is an American writer and musician best known for being the lead singer and guitarist for the alternative/progressive rock group Coheed and Cambria. He is also the creator of the comic book series, The Amory Wars and Kill Audio, co-written with wife Chondra Echert...

     – Lead/Backing Vocals; Lead/Rhythm Guitars; Keyboards; Synths
  • Travis Stever
    Travis Stever
    Travis Stever is the lead/rhythm guitarist for Coheed and Cambria, a progressive rock band from New York.-Shabűtie:Travis joined the band Shabűtie in 1995 along with vocalist/guitarist Claudio Sanchez, bassist Jon Carleo, and drummer Nate Kelley. After an argument over gas money the band split up,...

     – Lead/Rhythm Guitars; Backing Vocals
  • Michael Todd
    Michael Todd (musician)
    Michael Todd or Mic Todd was the bassist for progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria. Todd left the band in August 2006 because of personal issues, but officially rejoined the group on April 25, 2007. Upon the time of his initial departure, he had been with the band for ten years. He officially...

     – Bass Guitars
  • Taylor Hawkins
    Taylor Hawkins
    Oliver Taylor Hawkins is an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters....

     – Recording Drums

(Chris Pennie
Chris Pennie
Chris Pennie is the former drummer for the progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria and former drummer and co-founder of mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan.-Background:...

 wrote the original drum parts but was unable to record due to contract issues)

With:
  • Rami Jaffe - Piano; Synths
  • Stevie Blacke - Violin; Viola; Cello; String Arrangements
  • Chondra Echert - Backing Vocals on Gravemakers and Gunslingers
  • Nicholas Manrique Gardner - Backing Bass and Vocals on The End Complete II: Radio Bye Bye

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