Transit Transit

{{primary sources|date=March 2010}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Transit Transit

| type = Studio

| artist = Autolux

| cover = Autolux_transit_transit.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|2010|8|3}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Experimental rock, electronic

| length = 42:02

| label = ATP Recordings, TBD Records

| producer = Autolux

| prev_title = Future Perfect

| prev_year = 2004

| next_title = Pussy's Dead

| next_year = 2016

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1834614|pure_url=yes}} |title=AllMusic review}}

| rev2 = BBC

| rev2Score = (positive){{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/rrwx |title=BBC review}}

| rev3 = The Boston Phoenix

| rev3Score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite web|url=http://thephoenix.com/boston/music/105866-transit-transit-2010/ |title=Phoenix review}}

| rev4 = Consequence of Sound

| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2010/08/04/album-review-autolux-transit-transit/ |title=Consequence of Sound review}}

| rev5 = NME

| rev5Score = {{Rating|8|10}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/autolux/11473 |title=NME review}}

}}

Transit Transit is the second studio album by American alternative rock band Autolux, released on August 3, 2010, on TBD Records (USA) and ATP Recordings (outside of North America/Japan).

Background

Autolux produced Transit Transit themselves with guitarist/vocalist Greg Edwards serving as engineer. Most of the record was recorded at Space 23, the band's makeshift studio in their rehearsal room near downtown Los Angeles. A few drum tracks - "Highchair", "Spots" and "The Science of Imaginary Solutions" - came from an earlier session with engineer John Goodmanson. The title track (the last song to be recorded) was recorded in Denmark by Edwards, using a virtually unplayable upright piano and a sample of a coffin-style freezer found in a nearby basement, and then finished back in Los Angeles.

"Audience No. 2" was self-released on May 21, 2008, to college radio while the band continued to write and record songs that would finally end up on Transit Transit. The single also included two B-sides: the instrumental track "Fat Kid" and a cover of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter".

Track listing

{{Track listing

| title1 = Transit Transit

| length1 = 2:54

| title2 = Census

| length2 = 4:40

| title3 = High Chair

| length3 = 3:26

| title4 = Supertoys

| length4 = 4:38

| title5 = Spots

| length5 = 4:37

| title6 = The Bouncing Wall

| length6 = 3:43

| title7 = Audience No. 2

| length7 = 4:35

| title8 = Kissproof

| length8 = 3:27

| title9 = Headless Sky

| length9 = 4:06

| title10 = The Science of Imaginary Solutions

| length10 = 6:03

}}

Credits

References

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