Time For Reality (album)

Time for Reality is the debut album by Beating Signal. It was released on July 1 2022 Bandcamp
== Information ==
=== Recording ===
Initial recordings for the album began around 2014/15 with various demos being recorded, the idea of actually making an album actually came when the band finished on the demo of Press to Play. The band then decided to start playing all the songs they had at the time in order to give them live experience and be able to tweak them as the shows went on. This is when Luca decided to start U-manoyed where he would learn more about mixing and mastering. Around a year later after various U-manoyed releases, motivation for the album was little to none, this pushed back the albums release although the band would say they were working on a album at live shows in 2016 stating that it would probably come out the following summer. Concert recording When the summer of 2017 came around, the album was yet again delayed due to no motivation, although during this period Basti would record vocals for the album and the band would even release a short video on their facebook showing Basti recording some vocals for Press to Play. Facebook postThe final vocal recordings for the album would finish up in the summer of 2018. The band then released The Story in hopes to motivating Luca to mix the album. This did not work so the other 2 went on to search for someone to mix the album. 
Mick on mixing the album Private conversations with Mick
We went on searching someone for mixing. Everyone was disappointing. We were too used to Luca's mixing and UM def didn't help shape our expectations. So we went back and decided that Luca should do it. At the end of 2019 we told him that we'll leave the band if he won't finally start. He got the message. We set up a weekly schedule where he had to deliver one song each week.
The album would be finalized in the autumn of 2020 and mastered soon after. The band then took some time to figure out how to promote the album.
==== Betas ====
On Last.fm, "betas" for the album were found, it is unknown how these differ from the finalized album.Last.fm
===== Tracklist =====
Betas
#Press to Play (Beta)
#Forsake (Beta)
#The Story (Beta)
#Captured Life (Beta Album Version)
#Modern Kill (Beta)
#Casket (Beta)
#A Goddamned Soul (Beta)
#Innocent (Beta)
#Forget Me (Beta)
#Lost You (Beta)
#Replace The Heartbeat (Vocal Beta)
#Swallowing Tears (Beta)
=== Scrapped ideas ===
While most songs recorded were released on the album, there are several songs that are known to exist but are unreleased.
*Fegefeuer
*Deepest Love
*Earth TV
*The Storm
*Blood Everywhere
There is also an alternate version of Kannst Du Es Sehen? with Luca on vocals instead of Basti but it is unreleased.
Around the time of the albums release, Basti mentioned that they would release an EP eventually that would have guitars, it is unknown if this would be new songs or the songs on the album that would have guitars when played live.
=== Promotion ===
The first news of the album release would be on April 1 2022 with a post on Instagram announcing that the album would come that summer along with a short clip of them saying the same thing back in 2016. The next day the band made a post showing the albums artwork with some audio of Press to Play. The day after the band posted the album artwork as just an image with the caption "Welchen Titel wird das Album eurer Meinung nach haben?" inviting fans to guess the title of the album. On April 4, they made a post teasing the tracklist of the album and showed that it would have 13 songs. On April 6, the band posted a image showing the albums title "Time for Reality" and the tracklist, asking what songs everyone looked forward to hearing. That same day, the band made a post officially announcing the album and the release date July 1.
Album announcement
Get our long-awaited debut album 'Time for Reality' now!
9 years in its making finally conclude this summer to bring you an album we have basically sat on since 2016 before producing it from 2018 to 2020.
Until its release date on 1 July 2022, we'll release each of the 13 songs as own digital single. One song per week = 13 songs, 13 weeks.
It is time for reality, we welcome you to the freaky popshow!
Pre-order link in bio.
This would bring in the promotional cycle for the album which be one song off of the album releasing every week until the albums release date. This started with Press to Play and end with Swallowing Tears. The band would release digital singles along with a lyrics video for each song. In order these are:
*Press to Play - 8 April 2022
*Forsake - 15 April 2022
*The Story - 21 April 2022
*Captured Life - 28 April 2022
*Kannst Du Es Sehen? - 5 May 2022
*Modern Kill - 15 May 2022
*Casket - 20 May 2022
*A Goddamned Soul - 27 May 2022
*Innocent - 3 June 2022
*Forget Me - 10 June 2022
*Lost You - 16 June 2022
*Replace The Heartbeat - 24 June 2022
*Swallowing Tears - 1 July 2022
=== Tracklist ===
CD / Digital
#Press to Play - 4:21
#Forsake - 4:50
#The Story - 5:16
#Captured Life - 4:18
#Kannst Du Es Sehen? - 3:33
#Modern Kill - 5:16
#Casket - 5:19
#A Goddamned Soul - 5:18
#Innocent - 4:45
#Forget Me - 5:04
#Lost You - 4:41
#Replace The Heartbeat - 5:40
#Swallowing Tears - 5:15
== Gallery ==
File:TFRCover.jpg|Main cover for all platforms.
File:TFRCDFront.jpg|Front of the CD.
File:TFRCDBack.jpg|Back of the CD.
File:TFRCDIn.jpg|Inside of the CD.
File:TFRConcept1.jpg|Album art concept. Instagram post
File:TFRConcept2.jpg|Album art concept. 
File:TFRConcepts.jpg|Multiple album art concepts. 
File:TFRConcept3.jpg|Album art concept. 
== Credits ==
Music and Lyrics by Beating Signal
Produced by Beating Signal
Mixed by Luca Riese
Mastered by LANDR.com
Album artwork by Bastian Sieghold and Mickaël Pasquier
== Sources ==
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Category:Beating Signal Albums
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