RELIENT K - Five Score And Seven Years Ago (CD) New!

 This CD is new and still sealed. 

This is the 2007 release from Relient K.  Five Score and Seven Years Ago is the fifth full-length album by the Christian rock band Relient K.  It was released on March 6, 2007, and is the first full-length album by the band to feature bassist John Warne and guitarist Jon Schneck.  It is also the first Relient K album released without longtime bassist Brian Pittman.  Pittman did leave the band before the release of the album Mmhmm, but recorded most of tracks with the band.

According to lead singer, Matt Thiessen, the album was created with a "Five" theme, as it is their fifth album, and for the first time Relient K has five members on an album.  The "Seven Years Ago" links with the fact that their first album was created seven years prior to the release of this album, making for five albums in seven years.  It also ties in with the famous line, "Four score and seven years ago", delivered by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address.  Lincoln is addressed in the first track, "Plead the Fifth".  A poster advertising a concert for the band around the album's release depicted a cartoon Abraham Lincoln on it as well.

The cover of the album depicts the five band members staring up in the sky from a sidewalk, and they are all wearing parkas.  Jon Schneck stands behind Matt Thiessen, so there are four shadows crossing the shadow of the curb, creating five in tally marks.  Capitol Records released a promotional image about a month before the album's release, and the band's manager announced that it was not the album cover.  The official cover was confirmed on the Gotee Records website.  The promo image showed five sticks made into tally marks, with seven leaves either on the sticks, or falling off of them.  This image was on the back of the promo insert that advertised the new Relient K fan club that came with the CD.

Five Score and Seven Years Ago debuted at number six on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling about 64,000 copies in its first week.  As of June 2, 2007, this album had sold over 140,000 copies, and the current number to date may be substantially above that number.