‘We knew we didn’t want to take seven or eight months to write and produce the album, so we just went with the flow. ‘The time constraints worked in our favor, actually,’ Wade adds. In the past I’ve found that when you record the conventional way, doing the demo first, it’s hard to recapture the initial magic. It was great using so many first and second takes. There was something amazing in just diving right into capturing the moment without even creating a demo first. ‘The interesting thing is that we recorded almost every single song on the day it was written. ‘Last September, two weeks after we got off the road, we started writing on the spot in the studio,’ he says. In a recent interview, Wade discussed the exciting results of the ‘nonchalant, less thought out’ way he and his bandmates went about creating an album that fully lives up to its title, Who We Are. The song, a fond look back at the excitement and initial rush of romance, quickly rose to the Top 10 on Billboard’s Adult Top 40 Tracks chart. Upon its release in May, the single became the #1 most added track at Adult Top 40 Radio. ‘First Time,’ the debut single from Who We Are, is keeping the momentum going as the band tours the U.S. Notably, the band’s albums Stanley Climbfall (2002) and the self-titled Lifehouse (2005) were both gold-selling efforts. Then in 2005, Lifehouse scaled the Modern Rock and Adult Top 40 Charts again with the hit ballad ‘You And Me,’ which reached #5 on the Hot 100 and appeared on the soundtrack of the TV series Smallville. Impressively, No Name Face was certified double platinum. ‘Hanging By A Moment,’ from Lifehouse’s 2000 album debut No Name Face, was an across the board smash, hitting #1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock and Adult Top 40 charts and #2 on the Hot 100. On the just released Who We Are, Lifehouse’s fourth album, Wade – along with bassist Bryce Soderberg and drummer Rick Woolstenhulme – gets back to the loose, freewheeling approach to writing and recording that led to that first hit and the band’s subsequent success over the past seven years. One minute, the band’s label Dreamworks was paying people to come to their gigs, and the next, the band was opening arena shows for Matchbox 20. Jason Wade, founder and lead singer of Lifehouse, was only 19 when his hit song ‘Hanging By A Moment’ took his band from obscurity to pop stardom.
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