Harmonium

Harmonium is the second album by American pop singer-pianist Vanessa Carlton, released by A&M; Records in the United States on November 9, 2004 (see 2004 in music). Carlton co-wrote some of the album with Stephan Jenkins, her then-boyfriend and the lead singer of Third Eye Blind, who produced the album. Harmonium debuted outside the top twenty on the U.S. Billboard 200, and sales fell considerably short of those of Carlton's debut album, Be Not N... more

Harmonium is the second album by American pop singer-pianist Vanessa Carlton, released by A&M; Records in the United States on November 9, 2004 (see 2004 in music). Carlton co-wrote some of the album with Stephan Jenkins, her then-boyfriend and the lead singer of Third Eye Blind, who produced the album. Harmonium debuted outside the top twenty on the U.S. Billboard 200, and sales fell considerably short of those of Carlton's debut album, Be Not Nobody (2002). Its only single in the U.S., "White Houses", was not a top forty hit; two other singles, "Private Radio" and "Who's to Say", were released only in Asia. The commercial failure of the album, which Carlton attributed to poor promotion, led to her departure from A&M; Records in mid-2005. She toured through the U.S. during 2004 and 2005. Carlton said the album includes darker themes than those present on Be Not Nobody. She said she was past the "diary stage" of songwriting, in which "you're kind of mostly narcissistic and dealing... less