The Get Up Kids return in late January 2011 with a new studio album, There Are Rules – the band’s fifth full-length, and the first on their own Quality Hill Records imprint. Seven years after what looked to be their final album Guilt Show, with the group disbanding a year later in 2005 after 10 years of constant touring, The Get Up Kids returned to the studio in 2009, sparked by a spur-of-the-moment decision to start writing songs together again, made while they were rehearsing to tour the tenth anniversary edition of their breakout album Something to Write Home About. At the same time, There Are Rules marks a new chapter for the band, as they return to their independent roots, forming their own label – Quality Hill Records – and reigniting the DIY spirit that originally launched the band onto the worldwide stage. ”We had a really great relationship with Vagrant but we felt that with the proverbial rebirth of the band we wanted to start our own label. Do everything ourselves like we did in the beginning.” And as to naming the imprint? “Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood in Kansas City. It’s not far from where we first formed the band. It seems like an appropriate name for the label.” Click below to expand this post and see the album’s tracklist.
THE GET UP KIDS – THERE ARE RULES
1. Tithe
2. Regent’s Court
3. Shatter Your Lungs
4. Automatic
5. Pararelevant
6. Rally ‘Round the Fool
7. Better Lie
8. Keith Case
9. The Widow Paris
10. Birmingham
11. When It Dies
12. Rememorable
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