''Radiant'' is the fifth studio album by the

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band

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, released on October 24, 2014 through

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Background

In a 2012 interview,

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said that while writing "Cruel Silence" from the album ''

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'', he knew it "had a non-zero chance of being the last song on the last ever Iris album." After finishing the U.S. tour for ''Blacklight'',

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and Sega parted ways due to a tour argument, and Iris was put on hold. There was more than a year of silence between the band members, and Sega thought that Iris would never again release another album. However, this ended when Jones sent Sega three demo songs, which would form the basis of ''Radiant''. In 2014, Iris signed with

. According to Sega, " 'Radiant''is the story of a man who all of a sudden sees his world within a new environment and realises how bright and radiant it can truly be, if one looks upon it with different eyes." The album was mastered at Timeless Mastering in

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, New York using entirely

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Track listing

Personnel

– vocals, songwriting, keyboards *

– keyboards, guitars,

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, production

References

{{Authority control Iris (American band) albums 2014 albums