When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (2008)[edit]
This album garnered much acclaim from local as well as international fans. Likely Atmosphere's most commonly known album of the 21st century, it has gained wide attention from a vast audience, featuring Slug's story-telling-rap style songs such as "Yesterday", a song symbolizing Slug's relationship with his father, and "The Waitress", which is interpreted differently throughout his fan-base.[9] During the recording process of "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold", Slug was invited by Rick Rubin to Rubin's house to work through early demos of the album's tracks. No advanced copies of the album were ever released online in attempts to build anticipation for the album's release.[10][11]
Leak at Will (2009)[edit]
Between the release of When Life Gives You Lemons and To All My Friends, Atmosphere released another free EP in 2009 called Leak At Will, with seven original tracks.[12] Similar to Strictly Leakage, the EP was intended to tide over fans until the release of their next album.
To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EP's (2010)[edit]
A combination of EPs, the album To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy: The Atmosphere EP's was released in September 2010. The album reached #2 on iTunes top 10 album downloads during the week of September 11, 2010.[13][14] The album was very favourably reviewed, with some reviews comparing it to the Lucy Ford LP. The seventh track of the album, "The Loser Wins," is on the soundtrack for EA Sports' "Fight Night Champion."[15]
The Family Sign (2011)[edit]
After 2010’s double EP, Atmosphere returned with their first full-length album in three years.[16] The Family Sign was released in 2011, and is Atmosphere's sixth studio album. Continuing the trend of preceding albums, The Family Sign has more instrumentation and is the first album to have actual band musicians. Keyboard player Erick Anderson and guitarist Nate Collis, part of the touring band for Atmosphere (who perform live renditions of songs that are normally sampler/drum machine produced), were brought in to help record the album, leading to a much different sound than previous albums. One of the songs, "Just For Show", was put on the sound track of MLB 2K12.[16]
Southsiders (2014)[edit]
On July 2, 2013, Atmosphere released a new single titled "Bob Seger".[17] Earlier on in the year, Slug mentioned he was working on a new album.[18][19] On March 10, 2014, Atmosphere released a video for a new single titled "Bitter".[20] They also announced that their new album will be called Southsiders, which was released on May 6, 2014.[21]
The latest released track from this album, titled "Kanye West" was released on April 8 to the group's YouTube channel.
New Music (2015)[edit]
During the year of 2015 they released three new songs including Finer Things (ft. deM atlaS), This Lonely Rose (ft. Blueprint and Aesop Rock), and My Best Half.
New Music (2016)[edit]
So far in the year of 2016 they have released the songs Salma Hayek, Trying to Fly featuring Eric Mayson, Fireflies featuring Grieves, and Windows featuring Prof.
Fishing Blues (2016)[edit]
On June 22, 2016, the band announced the track list and release date for their upcoming album, Fishing Blues. The first single, titled "Ringo," was posted on YouTube the same day.[22] On July 29, 2016 they released a new single titled "No Biggie". The album will include guest appearances by rappers Kool Keith, DOOM, The Grouch, Aesop Rock, and deM atlaS, as well as artists Kim Manning and I.B.E.[23][24] The album is expected to be released August 12th, 2016.[25]
