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Santi is the most recent studio album by The Academy Is. The album's working title was
Chop Chop. The first preview of the album was provided by Johnny Minardi on January 26 2007 when he gave the song, "LAX to O'Hare", to Absolutepunk.net for streaming on their site.
The first single from the album was "We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands". The song was premiered on Q101 in Chicago at around 7:00 PM on February 5 2007. The song is now streaming from the band's PureVolume page and is available on iTunes Store in the USA.
The second single from the album is "Neighbors", and is now available for viewing on YouTube.
The cover design was released via the Fueled By Ramen text messaging service on February 5.
On Tuesday, March 27 2007 MTV2.com began streaming the album
, resulting in the album becoming available to download on various piracy sites.
In its first week of sales in the U.S., the album sold an impressive 33,000 copies, debuting at number 32 on the Billboard 200. and 94 in the UK
The word santi is described by the band as another word for "Cheers" or "Thank You".
William Beckett has explained the origin of Santi and how it came to be the album title in an Australian music magazine "Blunt" in the following story:
"Adam and I went to the same high school, and there was this dude named Josh Santiago who we went to school with. I was doing a solo project at the time, and i was listening to different music than most people - stuff like The Get Up Kids, The Promise Ring and Jimmy Eat World - and people there just didn't get me or what i was like. So this one guy in particular, Josh Santiago, gave me a hell of a time, like busted my chops and called me negative names like "fag" and stuff. Anyway, he had a Dave Matthews cover band called Santi, because his name was Santiago and he's just that kind of guy. So we started saying Santi as everything that wasn't him - everything that was positive, just because he was such a negative dude and such a terrible person. So we started saying santi as something funny or cool, kinda like "cheers" or we say it as a greeting, like, 'Whats up, Santi?' So it's a word we've been using for a long time and when it came time to name the record we listened to it and went like, 'Santi!' - it always had to be the name."
Track listing
"Same Blood" – 3:14
"LAX to O'Hare" – 3:36
"We've Got a Big Mess on Our Hands" – 3:26
"Sleeping with Giants (Lifetime)" – 3:36
"Everything We Had" – 3:38
"Bulls in Brooklyn" – 3:27
"Neighbors (song)" – 3:10
"Seed" – 4:17
"Chop Chop" – 3:26
"You Might Have Noticed" – 3:22
"Unexpected Places" – 4:15
- "Ghost" – 3:51
- "Everything We Had (One Take Acoustic Mix)" – 4:11
- "Toasted Skin" – 3:55
- "40 Steps" – 4:29
Trivia
- On the video for Slow Down, the buttock of Andy "The Butcher" Mrotek, the drummer, is partially revealed, revealing a tattoo which says the word Santi on it. However later, Mrotek got the Santi tattoo covered up with another. Adam T. Siska also got Santi tattooed on his buttock in episode 4 of TAI TV, during 2007.
- In the song "Naked Peekaboo" done with members from Gym Class Heroes, in the background a voice whispers "Santi" in some parts.
- William Beckett lost his lyric book for the album on a plane ride (as described in LAX to O'Hare) and was forced to write imprompt lyrics two days before the recording of Santi.
- According to an episode of TAI TV SANTI means thank you.
- Pronounced Sahn-tee.
- The iTunes bonus tracks 40 Steps and Toasted Skin have since been removed from the store