Crisis is Alexisonfire's third studio album, and the follow-up to Watch Out!. The album was released in the UK on August 21, 2006 on Hassle Records and on Shock Records in Australia. Distort Entertainment released the album for Canada a day later than the UK release date, and Vagrant Records followed suit for the US market. The album debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling over 20,000 copies in its first week.Crisis was certified platinum in Canada in May 2007. It is also the first Alexisonfire album to feature a title track. Crisis is one of Alexisonfire's most successful albums.
Conception & recording
This is the first album to feature Jordan Hastings on drums, replacing founding member Jesse Ingelevics. Ingelevics was no longer a part of the band as of June 14, 2005, according to a statement on Alexisonfire's official website. The post cited that the band and Ingelevics had slowly grown apart, and that he wanted to spend more time with his family and his fiancée. The song "Keep It On Wax" is about his departure, and his alleged trash-talking of the band that followed. The album also features Planes Mistaken for Stars frontman Gared O'Donnell singing on the track "You Burn First". The single "Boiled Frogs" refers to George's dad, whose boss tried to cheat him out of a pension, and refers to the popular theory that frogs, if placed in a pot of water and have the temperature slowly raised, will not notice that they are being cooked.
Podcasts:
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by Alexisonfire
Keep It On Wax
by: AlexisonfireI, I guess, the only thing cheap to you was your friends
You can always make new friends
oh well oh well
But when you sell them out will they be worth as much? (oh no)
[2x]
Now this bridge is ashes
It might as well have never been built
It might as well have never been built
And the river that it crossed
Looks like an ocean now, looks like an ocean now
Times change and people change with them
Some people love to play the victim
(Love to play the victim)
You threw caution to the wind
Washed away these few last years for nothing
(Was it all for nothing)
Keep it on wax
Your not the only one
Who's had to make sacrifices
who's had to make sacrifices
And time won't heal shit
When you got your hands in my pocket
When you got your hands...
Kick, Kick, Kick
Scream, Scream, Scream
It wont change a goddamn thing
It don't change a god damn thing
Kick, Kick, Kick
Scream, Scream, Scream
[2x]
I, I guess, the only thing cheap to you is your friends
I guess, the only thing cheap to you is your friends [3x]
OOOHHH, what a fucking shame
OOOHHH, that you had to mess things up this bad
Times change and people change with them
Some people love to play the victim
(Love to play the victim)
You Threw caution to the wind
Washed away these few last years for nothing
(Was it all for nothing)
It's gone, it's gone
There's nothing left
Keep it on wax