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''No Sound Without Silence'' is the fourth
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by Irish
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. The album was released by
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on 12 September 2014 in Ireland and other Friday-release countries and on 15 September 2014 in the United Kingdom. The album is the band's first full-length release under Columbia, after releasing their previous three studio albums under
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in Europe and
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in the United States. Largely recorded aboard the band's tour bus during the length of the 3 World Tour through 2012 and 2013, the album has been described as a "prequel" to the band's eponymous debut album, recorded with the ideology of creating an album better than what they had previously recorded. The album is preceded by "
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", released as the
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promoting the album on 22 July 2014.


Background

In 2012, the Script released their third studio album, '' #3''. Conceived by the band to appeal to a more
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audience, the album was initially released alongside mixed to negative reviews from
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, who described the album as having been rushed and lacking artistic vision, especially in the band's venture into
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influences. Despite the negative reaction from critics, the album was commercially successful, achieving a hot-shot debut on the Irish Album Charts and peaking at number 2 on the
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. The band's 2012 single, "
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", became one of the band's most commercially successful singles, peaking at number one on the Irish and UK Singles Chart and reaching the top ten on sixteen national singles charts. The single was also certified Platinum in the United Kingdom by the
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, 6× Platinum by
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in Australia, and 2× platinum in the United States by the
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. "Hall of Fame" also appeared on the
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's Top 100 most downloaded tracks of all time in the United Kingdom in April 2014, placing number 89 on the overall list. In April 2015, a special edition version of the album was released in Japan. This featured a bonus disc, containing 6 live-recorded tracks from their show in Tokyo on the NSWS tour. This included 4 back-catalogue songs ("Breakeven", "The Man Who Can't Be Moved", "For The First Time", and "Hall Of Fame") as well as 2 songs from the new album ("Superheroes", and "The Energy Never Dies").


Recording

Most of the material used for the band's fourth studio album was recorded on board the band's tour bus. On that bus, 40 potential tracks were written but ultimately only 11 tracks made the final cut. The 3 World Tour began in September 2012 and ended in July 2013. O'Donoghue, in addition to touring with the band, had served as one of the four coaches for the
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'', having coached Andrea Begley to win the second series of the program. O'Donoghue, however, quit the programme shortly after the second series had aired to focus on the recording and production of ''No Sound Without Silence'', stating that he was focused on the Script "moving forward" as they embarked on "the most important part of our career as a band".


Packaging

The title of the album, ''No Sound Without Silence'', is both a shortening of
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idea put forward by the band and a critical comment on the
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. ''No Sound Without Silence'' is a phrase derived from an idea put forward by the band, where meaningful statements cannot be made without thinking about what you want to say first; the "silence" referring to the silence that persists while a person thinks about what they want to say, and the "sound" referring to the sounds made by people when they speak. The phrase is also a comment on the state of the music industry, where, according to the band, most artists and labels do not think critically about what they want to say, therefore, do not say meaningful things. The Script lead vocalist Danny O'Donoghue commented on the album's title, stating "The time we've been away, we've had time to contemplate about what we want to say to the industry. There is no sound without silence. You can't have anything good to say if you don't think about it first".


Promotion

''No Sound Without Silence'' was formally announced by the band and Sony on 18 July 2014. The album, its artwork and release date was unveiled through a
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session attended by the band along with selected fans around the world. The session, which lasted a half-hour, involved the band answering questions from fans through
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and saw snippets from four tracks, "
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", "The Energy Never Dies", "Man on a Wire" and "No Good in Goodbye", premiered live during the session. "Superheroes" was the first full track to be lifted from the album, premiering simultaneously on Capital FM and on
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'' on 21 July 2014, and was released as a
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to United States
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on 28 July 2014. "Superheroes" was also released in the United Kingdom as the band's twelfth single on 31 August 2014, serving as the first single released in promotion of ''No Sound Without Silence''. Hail Rain or Sunshine was used in the opening scene of the 2014 Irish comedy film, ''
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'' based on the sitcom '' Mrs. Brown's Boys''.


Critical reception

''No Sound Without Silence'' received mixed reviews from music critics, though many commented that the album was a big improvement from their previous album #''3''.


Track listing


Personnel

The Script * Danny O'Donoghue – lead vocals, keyboard, guitar * Mark Sheehan – lead guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "
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" *Glen Power – drums, backing vocals Additional musicians *Andrew Frampton – guitar ("Superheroes") *Ben Sargeant – bass guitar ("The Energy Never Dies") *Ben Sargeant – bass guitar ("Without Those Songs") Technical personnel *James Barry – producer ("Superheroes") *Andrew Frampton – producer,
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("Superheroes") *Michael Heffernan –
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("Superheroes") *
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mastering ("Superheroes") * Mark Stent
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("Superheroes") *Geoff Swan – assistant engineer ("Superheroes") *Fergal Toohey – recording, assistant producer, assistant engineer ("Superheroes")


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Release history


References

{{Authority control 2014 albums The Script albums Columbia Records albums