Source Tags & Codes: 15th Anniversary

見開きジャケット。180G重量盤。2枚目のB面はアメリカ盤のバック・カヴァーのデザインをエッチング加工しており、音は入っていない。LPのバック・カヴァーは日本版CDのバック・カヴァーのレプリカを使用。

Rolling Stone (3/14/02, p.70) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...These Texas screamers have built a castle atop their notorious [audio] wreckage with their third album: forbidding and imposing on the outside, grand and luxurious within. Trail of Dead still play as if they get a bonus for every mike they blow out..." Entertainment Weekly (3/8/02, p.74) - "...Hardcore punk outbursts alternate with art-rock feedback flightd and dreamy bots of melody that somehow fuse into a coherent, often spectacular, album..." - Rating: A- Q (2/02, p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...There is a sense of looking back [here]. The more structured melodies echo the melancholic brief of '90s grunge..." Alternative Press (3/02, p.72) - 7 out of 10 - "...the band's most obviously emo album to date..." CMJ (12/30/02, p.11) - Ranked #7 on CMJ's "Top 10 of 2002" - "...Runs the gamut from gut-constricting noise...to hum-in-your-head-for-days numbers that hone in on melody rather than brute force..." Mojo (Publisher) (3/02, p.114) - "...Invigorating....Business as usual: chaotic, highbrow, and indebted to Sonic Youth..." NME (Magazine) (3/2/02, p.28) - 8 out of 10 - "...[They] sound as if they were born to a life of unfettered noise....[The album] manages the neat trick of sounding simultaneously untutored and highly focused..."

ハードコア?グランジ以降のさまざまなサウンド・テクスチャーが塊となって疾駆する怒濤の濃縮ロック。しかもそれは、それぞれの要素をセンス良く組み合わせたという生半可なものではなく、彼らの血や肉として最初から存在しているような説得力がある。前2作でのアナーキーかつエクスペリメンタルな音世界が、〈ポップ〉という名の普遍性さえも獲得しつつある驚異の3作目。ソニック・ユースも目じゃない!?
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