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The Invitation (Thirteen Senses album)

album by Thirteen Senses

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3521406 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Invitation is the first major label album by English alternative rock band Thirteen Senses. Released on 27 September 2004 by Vertigo Records, it includes the singles "Do No Wrong", "Into the Fire", "Thru the Glass" and "The Salt Wound Routine". "Into the Fire" was used on trailer for the second season of the American TV show Rescue Me and in the pilot episode of Grey's Anatomy, in the closing sequence of the two-part season three premiere of The 4400, in an episode of Pretty Little Liars, a clip show for Jim Carrey at the MTV Movie Awards 2006, and on BBC One's Match of the Day.

Release

The song "Thru the Glass" was released on 1 March 2004 as the debut single from The Invitation and was re-released in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2005. The re-release peaked at No. 18 on the UK Singles Chart and number 91 in the Netherlands. The limited-edition single was released on compact disc and 7-inch vinyl formats. Both tracks of the original release are remixed and remastered from the Falls in the Dark demo album sessions. The second single, "Do No Wrong", was released on 31 May 2004. It was the first single in the United Kingdom.

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“The Invitation (Thirteen Senses album)” enters the record as album by Thirteen Senses. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Invitation, Thirteen and Senses can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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“The Invitation (Thirteen Senses album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Invitation, Thirteen and Senses provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3521406. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2006 and 2005.

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