''Live Life Loud'' (stylized as ''LIVE*LIFE*LOUD!'') is the fourth studio album from Christian rock band

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. It was released on September 22, 2009. According to Daniel Biro, the dog on the cover is lead vocalist Jason Dunn's dog Murphy. The album was packaged with a pair of 3D glasses that are needed to be worn to view the album's CD booklet which is printed in 3D. The album peaked at No. 54 the first week on ''Billboard'' 200 and at No. 3 on The Billboard Christian Albums charts.

Concept and musical style

Bassist Daniel Biro describes the album as "really about encouraging our fans to do just that. To live your life loud, to embrace all that life brings your way and experience every moment of it to the fullest extent. This is the message we want our fans to come away with after they hear the album." The album is the first time that the band wrote songs together by just jamming as a band, although the band collaborated with Chris Stevens, Matthew Gerrard,

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, and Bart Millard on the record.

Track listing

Personnel

Hawk Nelson * Jason Dunn – vocals * Jonathan Steingard – guitars * Daniel Biro – bass * Justin Benner – drums Additional musicians * Steve Wilson – programming, guitars, percussion, backing vocals, string arrangements, arrangements (11) * Justin Saunders – cello * Zach Casebolt – violin * Todd Boswell –

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(11) * Frankie Barranco, Lauren Conklin, Chelsea Goodwin and Christiana Sudano – gang vocals (1) *

– vocals (3) * Jenn Helvering – backing vocals (11)

Production

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– executive producer, A&R * Jeff Carver – A&R * Steve Wilson – producer, recording, interlude mixing * J.R. McNeely – mixing *

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– mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY) * Bonnie Biro – art direction, design concept * Ryan Clark – design * Caleb Kuhl – photography * Teresa Davis – management

Awards

In 2010, the album was nominated for a

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for Recorded Music Packaging of the Year at the

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. The title song was also nominated for Short Form Music Video of the Year.41st Annual GMA Dove Awards nominees announced
on

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(February 18, 2010)

References

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