Don't You Fake It

In January 2006, AbsolutePunk reported that the band was in the process of recording their debut album.{{cite web|url=http://www.absolutepunk.net:80/|archiveurl=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20071005211943/http://www.absolutepunk.net/|title=AbsolutePunk.net|work=AbsolutePunk|publisher=SpinMedia|archivedate=October 5, 2007|accessdate=August 2, 2017|url-status=dead}}

On March 4, 2006, "Face Down" was posted on the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' Myspace profile.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/16069/new-track-from-red-jumpsuit-aparatus|title=New track from Red Jumpsuit Aparatus [sic]|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=March 4, 2006|access-date=January 22, 2022}} A music video was released for the song three days later.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/16140/red-jumpsuit-aparatus-launch-video|title=Red Jumpsuit Aparatus [sic] launch video|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=March 7, 2006|access-date=January 22, 2022}} In May 2006, they appeared at The Bamboozle festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/16063/poison-the-well-strike-anywhere-paint-it-black-chiodos-moneen-others-added-to-bamboozle|title=Poison The Well, Strike Anywhere, Paint It Black, Chiodos, Moneen, others added to Bamboozle|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=March 3, 2006|access-date=January 22, 2022}} Don't You Fake It was made available for streaming via AOL on July 17, 2006,{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/18672/media-stream-reel-big-fish-helmet-the-bronx-working-title-sinking-ships-more|title=Stream Reel Big Fish, Helmet, The Bronx, Working Title, Sinking Ships, more|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=July 17, 2006|access-date=January 30, 2022}} before being released a day later. They went on a headlining US tour in August and September 2006, where they were supported by Monty Are I, and then appeared at the Bamboozle Left festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/19210/tours-the-red-jumpsuit-apparatus-monty-are-i|title=The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus / Monty Are I|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=August 16, 2006|access-date=January 31, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/19408/bamboozle-left-post-updated-lineup|title=Bamboozle Left post updated lineup|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Reinecker, Meg|date=August 26, 2006|access-date=January 31, 2022}} On January 26, 2007, the music video for "False Pretense" was posted online.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/21925/the-red-jumpsuit-apparatus-post-video-for-false-pretense|title=The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus post video for 'False Pretense'|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=January 26, 2007|access-date=February 8, 2022}} In February and March 2007, the band headlined that year's Take Action Tour.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_1573|title=Routing for Take Action Tour 2007 revealed|work=Alternative Press|date=December 6, 2006|accessdate=August 8, 2016}} "False Pretense" impacted radio on March 13, 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.allaccess.com/mail/archive/eweekly/alternative/2007-3-6.html|title=AllAccess.com Alternative eWeekly|work=AllAccess|date=March 6, 2007|accessdate=July 1, 2016}} The album was re-released on March 20. Following this, they appeared at The Bamboozle festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/article/21293/bamboozle-adds-blood-brothers-catch-22-bayside-scary-kids-starting-line|title=Bamboozle adds Blood Brothers, Catch 22, Bayside, Scary Kids, Starting Line|publisher=Punknews.org|author=Paul, Aubin|date=December 13, 2006|access-date=February 7, 2022}} From late June to late August, the band went on the 2007 edition of Warped Tour.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_1997|title=Throwdown added to Warped 07; Madina Lake drop off|work=Alternative Press|date=April 26, 2007|accessdate=August 21, 2016}} "Your Guardian Angel" was released to radio on August 7.{{cite web|url=http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16771 |title=FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock |publisher=Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated |accessdate=October 31, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322142732/http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16771 |archivedate=March 22, 2013 }} In October and November, the band went on a US tour with Amber Pacific and New Years Day.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_2872|title=Drummer of Amber Pacific arrested in Philadelphia|work=Alternative Press|publisher=Alternative Press Magazine, Inc|date=October 20, 2007|accessdate=July 8, 2017}} In April 2008, the band went on an acoustic US tour, dubbed Unplugged and Unaffected.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_3594|title=The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus announce acoustic East Coast tour|work=Alternative Press|publisher=Alternative Press Magazine, Inc|date=March 6, 2008|accessdate=July 9, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728165537/http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_3594|archive-date=July 28, 2017|url-status=dead}} In early May, the band appeared at the 2008 edition of the Bamboozle festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_2985|title=Chiodos, Finch, the Starting Line, Senses Fail on Bamboozle 08|work=Alternative Press|publisher=Alternative Press Magazine, Inc|date=November 9, 2007|accessdate=July 8, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728165441/http://www.altpress.com/index.php/news/entry/archive_2985|archive-date=July 28, 2017|url-status=dead}}

In 2014, the band released "Don't You Fake It (Alliance Edition)", a remaster of the album. The remaster, as told by the band, was specifically done for an iTunes release, but is also available on other platforms. The tracklisting is mostly identical to the original album, but swaps some tracks' positions, removes "Damn Regret", and adds "Disconnected" from the Deluxe Edition as well as "The Grimm Goodbye" from certain releases of the original album.[https://www.facebook.com/redjumpsuitapparatus/posts/first-time-ever-re-mastered/1524133411146203/ First time ever re mastered by the band for iTunes!!!]

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/dont-you-fake-it-mw0000433092|title=Don't You Fake It - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus|last=Apar|first=Corey|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=August 4, 2011}}

|rev2 = Alternative Addiction

|rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|url=http://alternativeaddiction.com/Review/240|title=Album Review of Don't You Fake It by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus|publisher=Alternative Addiction|accessdate=March 27, 2017}}

|rev3 = IGN

|rev3Score = 6.6/10{{cite web|url=http://music.ign.com:80/articles/720/720173p1.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928054159/http://music.ign.com/articles/720/720173p1.html|title=The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It|work=IGN|last=Grischow|first=Chad|date=July 21, 2006|archivedate=September 28, 2008|accessdate=July 21, 2017|url-status=dead}}

|rev4 = RockLouder

|rev4score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/articles/3403/The-Red-Jumpsuit-Apparatus---Dont-You-Fake-It.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428125028/http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/articles/3403/The-Red-Jumpsuit-Apparatus---Dont-You-Fake-It.html|title=The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It: Rock music reviews|work=Rocklouder|last=May|first=Phillip|archivedate=April 28, 2009|accessdate=February 18, 2019|url-status=dead}}

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A writer for Alternative Addiction called the band's overall musicianship "a mouth-watering hybrid of the best traits associated with bands like Underoath, Story of the Year and The All-American Rejects", concluding that "TRJA may lack innovation, but push all the right buttons in terms of merging popular rock genres." Corey Apar from AllMusic praised the single "Face Down" as a highlight and commended both "Cat and Mouse" and "Your Guardian Angel" for breaking up the "steadfast urgency" throughout the album, but felt the overall sound was too reminiscent of contemporaries like Jimmy Eat World and The Used, concluding that "it's all not quite enough to wash out the generic taste left in one's mouth by the end. The band may not be faking anything, but even earnestness isn't always enough." IGN{{'}}s Chad Grischow said that there was "more promise than substance on their debut", giving praise to Ronnie Winter's vocal performance and the tracks for containing "a powerful rock punch with hard-crashing guitar riffs and driving beats supporting solid emo hooks", but said that it "fits a little too comfortably among the hundreds of other pop-punk and emo releases of the summer. It is certainly not the worst of them, but it is hardly the best either." He concluded that "in the overcrowded state of the genre their debut fails to make a splash."

The album debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200 and moved 25,000 copies in its first week.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/57723/now-22-remains-atop-album-chart-in-slow-sales-week|title='NOW 22' Remains Atop Album Chart In Slow Sales Week|last=Hasty|first=Katie|magazine=Billboard|date=July 26, 2006|accessdate=May 10, 2018}} By August 2006, the album had sold over 100,000 copies,{{cite web|url=http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=167376|title=Soundscan Results: Week Ending August 27th, 2006|publisher=AbsolutePunk|last=Kohli|first=Rohan|date=August 30, 2006 |accessdate=February 12, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120724043042/http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=167376 |archivedate=July 24, 2012 }} and has sold 852,000 copies as of August 2008.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/1044419/red-jumpsuit-apparatus-recording-new-album|title=Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Recording New Album|magazine=Billboard|last=Cohen|first=Jonathan|date=August 18, 2006|accessdate=June 23, 2016}} It was eventually certified Platinum in May 2016.{{Certification Cite Ref|region=United States|type=album|title=Don't You Fake It|artist=The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus}}

{{track listing

| headline = Don't You Fake It

| total_length = 44:28

| all_writing = Ronnie Winter, except where noted

| title1 = In Fate's Hands

| length1 = 3:27

| title2 = Waiting

| length2 = 2:56

| title3 = False Pretense

| length3 = 2:27

| title4 = Face Down

| length4 = 3:10

| title5 = Misery Loves Its Company

| length5 = 3:14

| title6 = Cat and Mouse

| length6 = 3:27

| title7 = Damn Regret

| length7 = 2:44

| title8 = Atrophy

| length8 = 3:16

| title9 = Seventeen Ain't So Sweet

| length9 = 3:20

| title10 = Justify

| length10 = 3:26

| title11 = Your Guardian Angel

| length11 = 5:21

| note11 = includes 1:30 of silence

| title12 = The Grimm Goodbye

| length12 = 7:40

| note12 = Winter, Duke Kitchens, Thomas Amason, Thomas Wurth, DanWagler) (hidden track; does not appear on all editions of the album

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{{track listing

| headline = Deluxe edition

| title13 = Face Down

| note13 = acoustic version

| length13 = 3:10

| title14 = Disconnected

| length14 = 2:55

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• Tracks 1, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 14 originally appear on The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
• Tracks 1 and 11 have alternate names.
• "In Fate's Hand"'s alternate name is "Ass Shaker".
• "Your Guardian Angel"'s alternate name is "The Acoustic Song".

{{track listing

| headline = Alliance Edition

| total_length = 43:34

| title1 = In Fate's Hands

| length1 = 3:29

| title2 = Waiting

| length2 = 2:58

| title3 = Seventeen Ain't So Sweet

| length3 = 3:22

| title4 = Face Down

| length4 = 3:12

| title5 = Cat and Mouse

| length5 = 3:29

| title6 = The Grimm Goodbye

| length6 = 7:43

| title7 = Atrophy

| length7 = 3:18

| title8 = Disconnected

| length8 = 2:55

| title9 = Justify

| length9 = 3:29

| title10 = False Pretense

| length10 = 2:29

| title11 = Misery Loves Its Company

| length11 = 3:17

| title12 = Your Guardian Angel

| length12 = 3:53

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• Making the Album – Behind the Scenes
• "Face Down" (music video)
• "False Pretense" (music video)
• Behind the Scenes – "False Pretense"
• On the Road with RJA

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Don't You Fake It.{{cite AV media notes|title=Don't You Fake It|others=The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus|publisher=Virgin|year=2006|type=booklet|id=0946 3 62829 2 3}}

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;The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

• Ronnie Winter – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
• Elias Reidy – lead guitar, backing vocals
• Duke Kitchens – rhythm guitar
• Joey Westwood – bass guitar
• Jon Wilkes – drums, percussion

;Additional musicians

• Randy Winter – drums, sequencers on "In Fate's Hands" and "Justify"
• Dan Korneff – strings

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;Production

• David Bendeth – producer, mixing
• Isaiah Abolin – assistant engineer
• Anthony Fontana – assistant engineer
• Ted Young – assistant engineer
• John Bender – digital editing, engineer
• Kato Khandwala – digital editing, engineer
• Dan Korneff – digital editing, mixing on "The Grimm Goodbye"
• Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound, NYC

;Artwork

• Sean Mosher-Smith – creative direction
• Dzark Design Bureau – design
• Myriam Santos-Kayda – photography

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