Welcome to the New Cold World is an Album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Lights Action. It was released worldwide on March 2, 2009 as a digital download

Music download

A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...

 only, with the option to buy a CD version through the band's website.

Track listing

Funding

The album was produced and mastered on a slim budget of around £15k. Much of the recording costs of the album were funded through the investment engine "SliceThePie".

Recording

The band spent the vast majority of 2008 writing and recording the album. Over 18 tracks were recorded for the album, the band choosing 10 to make the final cut.

Dirty Pretty Strings

The London based string quartet "Dirty Pretty Strings" feature on four of the songs on the album. "Signals to Radar", "Young Scarlett Young", "I Woke Up in a Civil War" and "Black Feathers".
Dirty Pretty Strings have worked with bands such as The Enemy

The Enemy (UK band)

The Enemy are an English rock band formed in Coventry in 2006, signed to Warner Music Group . In June 2007, The Enemy played twice at Glastonbury Festival, first in the 'Guardian Lounge' on Saturday and then the much larger 'Other Stage' on Sunday. They also headlined on the Saturday night of T in...

, Lightspeed Champion

Lightspeed Champion

Devonté Hynes , better known as Lightspeed Champion or Blood Orange, is a British composer, songwriter, producer and author, who has written for artists such as Florence and the Machine, Diana Vickers and The Chemical Brothers on their 2007 Grammy award winning album We Are The Night...

 and Ed Harcourt

Ed Harcourt

Ed Harcourt is an English singer-songwriter. To date, he has released five studio albums, two EPs, and thirteen singles. His debut album, Here Be Monsters, was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Prize...

.

"The Bottom of the Sea" choir

The final track on the record features a choir vocal in the chorus. The vocals were recorded in various locations around the UK and feature the voices of the band themselves, along with Singer/songwriter Richard Walters, Dallas Green

Dallas Green (musician)

Dallas Green is a Canadian musician who releases music as City and Colour. He is also known for his work as the former vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire.-Name:...

 of Alexisonfire

Alexisonfire

Alexisonfire was a five-piece, Juno-nominated post-hardcore band that formed in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada in 2001. The band consisted of George Pettit , Dallas Green , Wade MacNeil , Chris Steele , and Jordan Hastings .They describe their music as "the sound of two Catholic high-school girls...

/City and Colour

City and Colour

City and Colour is the recording alias for Juno Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green, who was also the guitarist and vocalist of the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire. He plays melodic acoustic and folk music and is often accompanied by a rotating number of Canadian indie rock...

, Kenny Bridges of Moneen

Moneen

Moneen is an indie rock band from Brampton, Ontario, Canada.-History:The band formed in 1999 after the dissolution of another band, called Perfectly Normal. Moneen's original bass player, Mark Bowser, was replaced by Chris Slorach, who left the band after the release of The Theory of Harmonial Value...

, and all of the Oxford Band A Silent Film.

Credits

• Patrick Currier - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , Cover Illustration
• Karl Bareham - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , Art Direction & Design
  Design
  Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
  
  
• Chris Moorhead - Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  /Keys
  Musical keyboard
  A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument, particularly the piano. Keyboards typically contain keys for playing the twelve notes of the Western musical scale, with a combination of larger, longer keys and smaller, shorter keys that repeats at the...
  
  /String Arrangement
• Alex Leeder - Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Steven Durham - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  /String Arrangement

• Richard Wilkinson - Producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
  , Mixing (At The Pierce Rooms/Mayfair)
• Doug Shearer - Mastering (At Pierce Entertainment)
• Dirty Pretty Strings - Session string quartet
  String quartet
  A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...
  
  

• Dallas Green
  Dallas Green (musician)
  Dallas Green is a Canadian musician who releases music as City and Colour. He is also known for his work as the former vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the post-hardcore band Alexisonfire.-Name:...
  
   - Guest vocals (on "Bottom of the Sea")
• Kenny Bridges - Guest vocals (on "Bottom of the Sea")
• Richard Walters - Guest vocals (on "Bottom of the Sea")
• Rob Stevenson - Guest vocals (on "Bottom of the Sea")
• Spencer Walker - Guest vocals (on "Bottom of the Sea")
• Ali Hussain - Guest vocals (on "Bottom of the Sea")
• Lewis Jones - Guest vocals (on "Bottom of the Sea")
• Darren Heelis - Assistant Engineer (At The Pierce Rooms)
• Ben Bell - Mayfair Assistant
• Toshi Minesaki - Mayfair Assistant
• Dougal Lott - Konk Assistant
• Emma Hampson-Jones - Band Photography
• iheartstudios - still life photography

• Paul Russell for P Russell & Co - Legal
• Matt Hughes for Devil PR - UK Press