From the Carpet

From the Carpet
EP by The Academy Is...
Released	February 21, 2006
Recorded	The Gallery of Carpet (Villa Park, Illinois)
Genre	Acoustic
Length	21:17
Label	Fueled by Ramen
The Academy Is... chronology
Almost Here (2005) From the Carpet (2006) Santi (2007)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	(73%)[1]

From the Carpet is an acoustic EP by The Academy Is..., released as a digital-only release on February 21, 2006.^[2] It included three songs from Almost Here: "The Phrase That Pays", "Down and Out" and "Black Mamba"; new songs "Pour Yourself a Drink" and "The Fever"; as well as a cover of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero".^[2] For the recording, the band returned to The Gallery of Carpet studio to work with engineer Brian Zieske, who produced and recorded their self-titled EP, before the band appended the "Is..." to their name.

Track listing

All tracks are written by William Beckett, except where otherwise noted

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Pour Yourself a Drink" (Basement Demo)	1:28
2.	"The Fever"	3:40
3.	"The Phrase That Pays" (Nashville version)	4:01
4.	"Working Class Hero" (John Lennon cover)	3:41
5.	"Down and Out" (featuring Sheldon Miller of This Is Me Smiling [Piano rendition])	5:15
6.	"Black Mamba" (Three in the Morning PartyMix)	3:07

References

1. "The Academy Is... - From the Carpet - Album Review". AbsolutePunk. 8 October 2023.
2. "The Academy Is… to release digital-only acoustic EP". Alternative Press. February 14, 2006. Retrieved June 29, 2016.

External links

• From the Carpet at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)