Heartache Is Boring

Infobox Album | Name = Heartache Is Boring
Type = Album
Artist = Ainjel Emme


Released = 2003
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Pop/Rock/Indie
Length = 43:42
Label = Sparrowheart Music Company
Producer = Ainjel Emme, Mat Mitchell, Kyle Ellison
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "Heartache Is Boring"
(2003)
Next album = "Songs To Pass The Quiet Hours"
(unreleased)

"Heartache Is Boring" is the debut album by singer / songwriter Ainjel Emme, released in October 2003 (see 2003 in music).

Track listing

#"Long As It's Sweet" – 3:44
#"In Flames" – 3:54
#"A Fraction" – 4:09
#"Set Up For a Fall" – 3:54
#"Easier" – 5:01
#"What I Know About You" – 4:08
#"Cold Like Speech" – 4:46
#"Dodging Fate" – 1:37
#"Summerlife" – 5:37
#"The Frozen Lake" – 7:02

Personnel

*Ainjel Emme - vocals, background vocals, bass, rhythm and lead guitar, piano/keys, harmonium, drums, drum and synth loops.
*Gabriel Garza - bass guitar.
*Kyle Schneider - drums.
*Mat Mitchell - drum loops.
*Kyle Ellison - addl. guitar on "Cold Like Speech"

Production

*Producers: Ainjel Emme, Kyle Ellison, Mat Mitchell
*Digital Engineering: Kyle Ellison, Mat Mitchell
*Analog Engineering: Ainjel Emme
*Mixing engineer: Mat Mitchell, Kyle Ellison
*Mastering engineers: "Big Bass" Brian Gardner, Jim Wilson
*Photography: Todd V. Wolfson

Miscellanea

Ainjel performed all of the instrumentation for "Long As Its Sweet".

Penny, Ainjel's calico cat, was found only a few days old and abandoned while recording this album at Pedernales Studios. The little cat was stuck in the ceiling above the control room. As a kitten, Penny slept in the box that used to house Ainjel's 8-track reel to reel machine, which was used to record portions of this album. A line in "Cold Like Speech" references this.

The song "Summerlife" was featured in Todd Livingston's 2004 short film "So You Downloaded A Demon".

"Long As It's Sweet" made it to the finals at [http://www.iacmusic.com Independent Artist Company] 's Indie Song of the Year contest in 2005, but lost to a song by legendary Who guitarist Pete Townshend and his girlfriend, Rachel Fuller. Ainjel was also inducted into the IAC Hall of Fame at this time.

The song "In Flames" was featured on "Desperate Hippies", a "Desperate Housewives" spoof which has been featured at the 2006 Tromanale Festival in Berlin and on MySpace.com.

"Set Up For A Fall" won Best Pop Song of 2006 at the [http://www.iacmusic.com Independent Artist Company] .

"Long As It's Sweet" and "In Flames" were featured in the 2007 film, "Have Love Will Travel".

"Easier" won Indie Song of The Year at [http://iacmusic.com/ IACmusic.com] on April 6, 2008.