Columbia Records Announces the Release of 'Liberation Transmission,' the Third Full-Length Album From Lostprophets

Columbia Records Announces the Release of 'Liberation Transmission,' the Third Full-Length Album From Lostprophets

First Single, 'Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast),' Impacts Radio on May 16

'Liberation Transmission' in Stores Tuesday, June 27

NEW YORK, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Records is set to release Liberation Transmission, the third full-length album from the Welsh band Lostprophets, on Tuesday, June 27.

Liberation Transmission, the first Lostprophets album since 2004's RIAA gold-certified Start Something, is produced by Bob Rock (whose work on Metallica's self-titled "black album" is much admired by Lostprophets). Tracks for Liberation Transmission were recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood and Rock's Plantation Recording in Maui, Hawaii and mixed at The Warehouse in Vancouver.

"Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)," the album's first single, is slated to impact radio on Tuesday, May 16. Lostprophets recently completing filming a new video for "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)" in Los Angeles, co-directed by the band and Ryan Smith (Story of the Year, Good Charlotte, Bowling For Soup).

Liberation Transmission premieres 12 new Lostprophets songs: "Everyday Combat," "A Town Called Hypocrisy," "The New Transmission," "Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)," "Can't Stop, Gotta Date With Hate," "Can't Catch Tomorrow (Good Shoes Won't Save You This Time)," "Everybody's Screaming!!!," "Broken Hearts, Torn Up Letters and the Story of a Lonely Girl," "4:AM Forever," "For All These Times Kid, For All These Times," "Heaven For The Weather, Hell For The Company," "Always All Ways (Apologies, Glances and Messed Up Chances)."

Lostprophets are Ian Watkins (vocals), Mike Lewis (guitar), Lee Gaze (guitar), Stuart Richardson (bass) and Jamie Oliver (keyboards, programming).

The members of Lostprophets have all known each other for at least 15 years -- Ian and Mike Lewis have been acquainted since the age of 5 -- and put together the first version of the band in the tiny working-class Welsh town of Pontypridd in 1997.

The future Lostprophets signed to Visible Noise, an independent label in the UK, and made their first album, The Fake Sound of Progress, over the course of a week in 2000, for the cost of roughly $4,000.00.

They toured incessantly through 2000-2001 and experienced a transformative breakthrough moment at the 2001 Reading Festival, where -- without the benefit of TV, radio or press support -- they created pure audience pandemonium on the festival's second stage. The rabid fanbase they'd developed through live touring showed up en masse at the Reading gig, tearing down the riot barriers and generating an authentic grassroots buzz. In 2004, Lostprophets played the main stage at the Reading Festival.

Signing with Columbia Records in the US, Lostprophets re-tooled The Fake Sound of Progress for release in October 2001. The album's successor, 2004's Start Something debuted at #5 on the UK charts and reached #33 on the Billboard Top 200, achieving RIAA gold record status.

"Liberation Transmission," says Lostprophets guitarist Mike Lewis, "is the soundtrack for liberating your life."

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Source: Columbia Records

CONTACT: Maggie Wang of Columbia Records, New York, +1-212-833-8208,
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Web site: http://www.columbiarecords.com/
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