Recorded during the summer of 2000 at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ and Dumbo Studios in New York City, this was the band's first nationally released album. The CD was featured in the Best Buy weekly add prior to release. It coincided with the re-release of Wanderer and Souls Aflame on the newly coined Everfine Records. The CD was produced by John Alagia (Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, et al.), mixed at Loho Studios by John and engineer Jeff Juliano, and mastered at Absolute Audio by Fred Kevorkian. The CD debuted on the Billboard Internet Sales: #11 and the Billboard Top New Artists: #66. O.A.R. truly comes of age in the studio on 'Risen', the band's recording debut on Everfine Records. The eleven songs perfectly capture the energy and power of their live performance. O.A.R. has once again succeeded in creating an album that can be thoroughly enjoyed from the first song to the last over and over again.