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Lifehouse’s latest CD
out for a “Spin”

"Stanley Climbfall" Lifehouse DreamWorks

The followup to their multiplatinum debut "No Name Face" (with its mega-breakout hit "Hanging By A Moment" of a couple of years back) is sure to please the L.A. band's young adult fans.

The trio of singer/lyricist Jason Wade, bassist Serge Andrade and drummer Rick Woolstenhulme has recently become a quartet, with the addition of Rick's brother Sean, a guitarist who toured with Lifehouse this past summer.

The album's first radio/video single "Spin" has been out since late July. Wade told the Launch music website it's a song that's been around ever since he first wrote it at age 16 more than five years ago. "Usually, if a song's that old, you never touch it again. There's some songs that I can't even remember, you know, 'cause I'm embarrassed about how bad they are ... So, I'm keeping my fingers crossed (that this song will do good) ... It's like 'Hanging By A Moment' took five minutes to write, this one took five years.

"The lyric 'you and I wouldn't change a thing' from 'Spin' means a lot to me," he said on the band's website. "I like the idea that hard times shape the person you become later on. I like the idea of having no regrets."

The unusual album title is derived both from an inside joke and the name of a new song. "Everyone has their ups and downs," Wade told Billboard magazine. "So after a lot of wordplay, a song called 'Stand, Climb, Fall' was transformed into an everyday character named 'Stanley Climbfall,' who goes through those kinds of changes."

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Gary C. W. Chun

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