Glory Sound Prep


Glory Sound Prep is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Jon Bellion. The album was released on November 9, 2018, through Visionary Music Group and Capitol Records. It was supported by three official singles: "Conversations with My Wife", "JT", and "Stupid Deep". The album was announced via Bellion's Twitter on October 10, 2018.

Background and release

On January 25, 2018, Bellion teased a snippet of an upcoming song on an Instagram video. On April 16, Bellion began teasing his next album with 4 pictures captioned with "GSP". He later changed the name of his Instagram to the name of his touring group, "Beautiful Mind".
On October 9, Bellion posted a photo to his social media accounts from "GSP Staff", stating: "Tomorrow, Headmaster Stormzy requests your presence for an orientation ceremony in the main atrium. Time: 3:00 pm EST." The following day he announced his second studio album Glory Sound Prep on his Twitter account, set to be released on November 9. On October 17, he released a preview on his social media accounts of the first single from the album, "Conversations with My Wife", which was released two days later. The following week, he released a preview on his social media accounts of the second promotional single, "JT", and released it on October 26. "Stupid Deep", the third promotional single from the album, was released on November 2.
In a 2019 Genius: For the Record Interview with Rob Markman, Jon explained that Glory Sound Prep is also the name of a production group composed of himself, Mark Williams, and Raul Cubina. He also explained that he decided not to heavily promote the album as a result of being tired from promoting his previous album, The Human Condition. He claimed he felt it was more valuable to leave the audience to sit with and digest the album.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Glory Sound Prep

  • Jon Bellion - producer, lead vocals, MPC, synthesizer, programming, percussion, piano, whistle, string composer, sound design
  • Raul Cubina - producer, sound design, synthesizer, programming, percussion, drums, background vocals, engineer, mixing engineer
  • Mark Williams - producer, sound design, synthesizer, programming, percussion, guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, piano, ROLI, organ, background vocals, horn arrangement, string arrangement

    Musicians

  • Travis Mendes - lead vocals, background vocals
  • B.Keyz - lead vocals
  • RZA - lead vocals
  • Christopher Sabat - lead vocals
  • Quincy Jones - lead vocals
  • Nylo - background vocals
  • Daron Lameek - background vocals
  • Sheldon-Ray Murray - background vocals
  • Melissa McMillan - background vocals
  • Samira Gibson - background vocals
  • Camille Trczinski - background vocals
  • John Splithoff - background vocals
  • Schadrack Pierre - background vocals
  • Christianne Jensen - background vocals
  • JD McCrary - background vocals
  • James McCrary - background vocals
  • Ava Pagliarulo - background vocals
  • Kate Sexton - background vocals
  • Emma Sexton - background vocals
  • Aaron "ys" Dales - bass guitar
  • Mylon Hayde - MPC, programming, background vocals
  • busbee - piano
  • Homer Steinweiss - drums, percussion
  • Stan Orlovsky - cello
  • Leigh Stuart - cello
  • Boris Deviatov - viola
  • Eddy Malave - viola
  • William Frampton - viola
  • Alexander Abayev - violin
  • Karen Dekker - violin
  • Zach Brock - violin
  • Ibanda Ruhumbika - sousaphone, tambourine
  • David Guy - trumpet
  • Michael Leonhart - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Frosty Lawson - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Ryan Svendsen - trumpet
  • John Gibson - trombone
  • Clark Gayton - trombone
  • Frank Cohen - trombone
  • Nick Grinder - trombone
  • Richard Cannata - tenor sax, flute
  • Ian Hendrickson-Smith - baritone sax

    Production

  • John Arbuckle - engineer
  • Nylo - engineer
  • Manny Marroquin - mixing engineer
  • Chris Galland - mixing engineer
  • Raul Torres - assistant mixing engineer
  • Jens Jungkurth - additional engineer
  • Homer Steinweiss - assistant engineer
  • Ben Dotson - post-production audio editing
  • Emerson Mancini - mastering
  • Mike Bozzi - mastering
  • Chris Connors - strings composer, engraver
  • David Ardinaryas Lojaya - album art
  • Recorded at Cove City Sound Studios — Glen Cove, New York
  • Recorded at Diamond Mine Recording — Long Island City, New York

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