Year in Rock 2012 Nominee: ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
...AND
YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD
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Lost Songs
Released:
October 23
...And You
Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead sometimes don't take it easy on
their fans. Those of us who have stuck through them over the years
have had to endure lots of ups and downs, and the music took a noted
downturn in quality as the band grew more and more dissatisfied with
their record label. Lost Songs marks the third album released
on their own label, and it forgoes the tentative steps away from
overblown prog-infused noise rock that marked The Century Of Self,
and also puts the more explicitly melodic tendencies that actually
somewhat worked to their advantage on Tao Of The Dead.
Instead, Lost Songs brings the noise pillar to post, urgently
and consistently. It's lazy to compare it to their now decade-old
critically revered masterpiece Source Tags And Codes, and
that's also unfair to Lost Songs. The album very well may be Trail Of
Dead's first album in 10 years to absolutely thrill instead of merely
exciting, but it's an album better not put side by side with a 21st
century classic and instead put in the context of the four albums
that came before; in this chronology, us fans can feel even better
about Lost Songs, because it shows a band that hasn't come
full circle but rather went through hell to find themselves again.
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