Tilt (The Lightning Seeds album) focusing on subjects such as the Liverpool dockers' strike, self-loathing pop stars and general disillusionment. Preceded in release a week by the single "Life's Too Short", "Tilt" was released by Epic Records in November 1999. A unique billboard campaign was developed to promote the album. The album was a commercial failure, only reaching number 46 on the UK Albums Chart. Its two singles also fared badly in the UK Singles Chart. Broudie was later unsatisfied with the album, and took the band on hiatus in 2000. After the Lightning Seeds had been a solo project for Ian Broudie, the project
American Band (album) years, saying it is "to 2016 what "American Idiot" represented for the Bush era — a protest album that rages against the political machine." American Band (album) American Band is the eleventh studio album by American Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers, released on September 30, 2016 on ATO Records. Produced by long-time collaborator David Barbe, and recorded in the summer of 2016, it is the first Drive-By Truckers album since 1999's "Pizza Deliverance" not to feature cover art by their longtime collaborator Wes Freed. "American Band" is their second record with only two songwriters, the other being "English Oceans", released