When Minneapolis trio Semisonic began to work on their new album, All About Chemistry, the band found themselves in an unfamiliar position: they were no longer upstarts, underdogs or indie rockers. Instead they had a hit song and sales of two million albums worldwide to follow up.
     
      At home, their second album, Feeling Strangely Fine, was certified platinum, and the runaway hit song Closing Time was now a fixture everywhere from World Series games to high school graduations. And in the UK, another song, Secret Smile, had launched Feeling Strangely Fine to platinum sales as well as a Brit Award nomination.
     
      Rather than feeling pressured by all of this success, however, guitarist/songwriter Dan Wilson says the band found it liberating. It was sometimes overwhelming to read all the e-mails we’d get about how deeply our music was affecting the fans. They told us about the joy our music brought them, but what struck me most was that they really felt like these songs were helping them to make sense of their lives and times. ThaT s exactly what we dream of doing when we... (More SEMISONIC Biography)