Fragile Future

Infobox Album
Name = Fragile Future
Type = studio
Artist = Hawthorne Heights


Released = August 5, 2008 (US)
August 11, 2008 (UK)
Recorded = 2007 - 2008
Genre = Emo, pop punk, alternative rock, post-hardcore
Length = 41:23
Label = Victory
Producer = Howard Benson [ [http://www.melodic.net/newsOne.asp?newsId=8063 Hawthorne Heights works with Howard Benson, new demo up] "Melodic.net". Retrieved on June 15, 2008]
Reviews =
* "Alt Press" Rating|3.5|5 (#242, p.158)
* The Album Project Rating|2|5 [http://thealbumproject.net/2008/08/full-review-hawthorne-heights-fragile-future/ Link]
* "Strange Glue Rating|2|5 [http://www.strangeglue.com/reviews/hawthorne-heights-fragile-future link]
* "Kerrang Rating|2|5
* "Orange Karma Rating|3|5 [http://crediblemusicreviews.com/2008/08/07/hawthorne-heights/ link]
* "Rock Sound rating-10|8
*Allmusic Rating|3|5
Last album = "If Only You Were Lonely"
(2006)
This album = "Fragile Future"
(2008)
Next album =
Misc = Singles
Name = Fragile Future
Type = studio
Single 1 = Rescue Me
Single 1 date = July 22, 2008
Single 2 = Somewhere in Between
Single 2 date = TBA 2008
Single 3 =
Single 3 date =
Single 4 =
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"Fragile Future" is the third full-length studio album by Hawthorne Heights. It is their first album to not feature guitarist Casey Calvert, due to his death in November 2007. However, he will always be credited in the albums, and continues to be part of the band, "in spirit."Fact|date=August 2008 Calvert was involved in the recording of some of the songs on the new album.

The new album features 12 tracks. [ [http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=403081 Hawthorne Heights Track Listing/Clip Stream] "AbsolutePunk.net" Retrieved on July 19, 2008] The album was to be released earlier in 2008, but due to an incident with Victory Records, it was postponed. Victory and Hawthorne Heights have solved their problems now, and the album was released August 5, 2008. [ [http://www.absolutepunk.net/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=4781&day=2008-8-5 Hawthorne Heights - Fragile Future] "AbsolutePunk.net." Retrieved on June 15, 2008]

In 2007, the band released a demo version of "Come Back Home," and a full version of "Rescue Me" in July 2008 on the band's official MySpace, which is the first single off of the album. On July 22, 2008 "Rescue Me" was released on iTunes. The Album leaked onto the internet on July 31. Following the leak, the band put the full album up for listening on their MySpace page.

The album debuted at #23 on the Billboard 200.

Track listing

#"The Business of Paper Stars" - 3:47
#"Rescue Me" - 3:08
#"Until the Judgement Day" - 3:45
#"Somewhere in Between" - 3:22
#"Sugar in the Engine" - 4:29
#"Desperation" - 3:28
#"Four Become One" - 3:55
#"321" - 3:40
#"Disaster" - 3.01
#"Let Go of Everything You Know" - 3:25
#"Corps of Corpses" - 3:12
#"Come Back Home (Reprised)" - 4:11

* In "Come Back Home (Reprised)", the reprise part is the chorus from "This Is Who We Are," which is from the band's second album, "If Only You Were Lonely".

iTunes bonus tracks

#"321." (Remix)
#"Desperation" (Remix)
#"Come Back Home" (Demo)
#"Disaster" (Demo)
#"Four Become One" (Demo)
#"Somewhere In Between" (Demo) [Pre-order only]

Wal-Mart bonus tracks

#"Scrantonicity (Summer Sunshine)"
#"Lost, So Lost"
#"Rescue Me" (Acoustic)
#"Somewhere In Between" (Acoustic)
#"Four Become One" (Acoustic)
#"Disaster" (Acoustic)
* The Wal-Mart version of the record also comes with a bonus DVD.

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