Fifth album Gravity released

In June, their fifth album, Gravity , was completed and released. Shortly after the completion of the record, Jamie chose to leave the band for personal reasons, though he returned briefly to stand in for Mike Eisenstein during the Canadian tour of Gravity . The album received mixed reviews, with some critics and fans contending that the album was too drastic a departure from the band’s original musical style into a more mainstream sound and lacking any creativity . Maida’s signature nasal falsetto vocal technique was largely absent from the album. Maida said that the album was “pretty much the opposite of Spiritual Machines “, calling it their “most basic album” since Naveed . Gravity ‘s Canadian chart-topping first single, ” Somewhere Out There “, became the band’s biggest international hit to date peaking at No. 26 on the US Hot 100 and No. 7 on the US Alternative Rock Song Chart. Its second single, “Innocent”, was also very popular, peaking at No. 2 in Canada, and regained popularity in 2008 after a cover performance on American Idol . Gravity proved to be more successful than Spiritual Machines in both America and Canada, due to the success of the singles; it reached No. 2 in Canada and No. 9 in the US, their highest charting album in the US. In between their fifth and sixth albums, OLP released their first live album, titled simply Live , which contains a selection of the band’s hits from their first five albums as played throughout tours in various Canadian cities.