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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Feed Me To the Forest
2. Trash Flavored Trash
3. Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck
4. Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers
5. Teen Heat
6. Rats and Rats and Rats For Candy
7. Crimes
8. My First Kiss At the Public Execution
9. Live At the Apocalypse Cabaret
10. Beautiful Horses
11. Wolf Party
12. Celebrator
13. Devastator
DISC 2:
1. Ladies and Gentlemen
2. Metronomes
3. Crimes [Alt. Version] - (alternate take)
4. Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers [Alt. Version] - (alternate take)
5. Anthrax [Remix] - (remix)
6. Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck [Live] - (live)
7. Trash Flavored Trash [Live - Reading Festival 2005] (live)
8. Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers [Live - Reading Festival 2005] (live)
9. My First Kiss At the Public Execution [Live - Reading Festival 2005] (live)
10. Live At the Apocalypse Cabaret [Live - Reading Festival 2005] (live)
11. Rats and Rats and Rats For Candy [Live - Reading Festival 2005] (live)
12. Teen Heat [Live - Reading Festival 2005] (live)
13. Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck [Video]
| Details | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Blood Brothers, thankfully, cannot be categorized. Too angular and arty for conventional headbangers, and too thrash-oriented for shoegazing indie kids, the ruckus the band creates simultaneously flays the nerves and engages the brain. CRIMES, the Brothers' fourth album, develops the sound pioneered on their previous releases, particularly the dual screaming-vocal duties of Jordan Blilie and Johnny Whitney. The relentless banshee screeches of both singers are hair-raising, and this, combined with the jagged, punk- and metal-influenced arrangements, proves to be the music's most distinguishing feature.
But the Blood Brothers are deeper and more complex than your average thrash outfit. Avant-garde atmospheric passages, unexpected moments of melodicism, and associative lyrics that read like a surrealist's word game add unique dimensions to CRIMES, as does the creative instrumentation (how many hardcore bands feature laptop, Farfisa, Wurlitzer, and trumpet?). Whether trafficking in the moody experimentation of post-punk and New Wave ("Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck") or the ferocious intensity of speed metal ("Trash Flavored Trash"), CRIMES is full of frantic, pummeling, inventive energy, and presents the Blood Brothers as one of the more distinctive rock bands on the scene.
Industry Reviews
Jumping, popping bass lines, reverberating with each motion up and down the scale, are all over the album's lower reaches, providing a thrillingly unstable foundation for the already-existent chaos atop it...
5 out of 5 - The band's wondrously twisted, light-speed angularity is still in glorious effect.
CRIMES is the sound of young men converting all kinds of frustration into righteous wrath, eager to retake the streets and overthrow corporate oppression. - Grade: A-
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