The album was awarded the Emma Award for the 'Best Debut Album of the Year 2005' and the band received the 'Best Newcomer of the Year'-Award.Īccompanying the album, the band released a video for the song Lift, directed by Tuomas 'Stobe' Harju, and used the songs Stay and Illusion and Dream as promotional radio singles. It entered the Finnish Top 40 album chart at number one and has been certified platinum by the Finnish IFPI. The band's debut album Signs of Life was released in Finland on 19 January 2005, followed by iTunes on. After having been taken offline, it was remastered and reissued on the band's second album Carnival of Rust.

On 18 December 2004, the Poets released a free download single on their website Maybe Tomorrow is a Better Day to market the release of their debut album Signs of Life. POTF performed at Popkomm 2005 in Berlin. The videos for both songs were directed by Tuomas 'Stobe' Harju. POTF were also voted 'Fresh Newcomer of 2004' by YleX. The songs charted No. 14 and No. 8 on the Finnish single charts and reached No. 2 and No. 7 in YleX's 2004-voting for 'Best Finnish song'. On 30 June 2004, the Poets released their debut single Late Goodbye in Finland which was followed by Lift on 9 September 2004. In order to keep complete control and freedom over the band, the members founded their own independent record label, Insomniac, on which they have released all their CDs as of 2014. Kaarlonen being a former employee of benchmark-developer Futuremark, POTF were offered to have their song Lift included in the 2005-literation of Futuremark's benchmarking software 3DMark, which exposed the band to a wider audience than Max Payne 2 had done. It was produced by Markus 'Captain' Kaarlonen, who joined the band shortly after due to Saaresto and Tukiainen liking his work. The song, entitled ' Late Goodbye', was used as the ending-theme of the game as well as a recurring motif, being sung and whistled by multiple characters. In 2003, Saaresto's friend Sami Järvi, a script-writer working at Remedy Entertainment handed Saaresto a poem he had written, asking him to turn it into a song to use in Remedy's video game Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.

Tukiainen had written multiple songs for Saaresto's previous band Playground and performed with Finnish jazzband Pohjoinen Syke previously. The band was founded on 25 April 2003 by Saaresto and Tukiainen.

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