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Track List
01) Introduction: Let's Experiment
02) Pure Radio Cosplay
03) Summer of All Dead Souls
04) Cover the Days Like a Tidal Wave
05) Fall of the Empire
06) The Wasteland
07) The Spiral Jetty
08) Weight of the Sun (or The Post-Modern Promet
09) Pure Radio Cosplay (reprise)
10) Ebb Away
11) The Fairlight Pendant
12) Tao of the Dead, Part II: Strange News From
01) Introduction: Let's Experiment
02) Pure Radio Cosplay
03) Summer of All Dead Souls
04) Cover the Days Like a Tidal Wave
05) Fall of the Empire
06) The Wasteland
07) The Spiral Jetty
08) Weight of the Sun (or The Post-Modern Promet
09) Pure Radio Cosplay (reprise)
10) Ebb Away
11) The Fairlight Pendant
12) Tao of the Dead, Part II: Strange News From
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First Released
2011
Alternative Rock
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Rock/Pop
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Tao of the Dead (pronounced Dà o (help·info)) is the seventh studio album by Texas rock band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. The first single, "Summer of All Dead Souls", was posted on Spin.com on November 11, 2010, and later on Soundcloud. The digital single released officially on November 29. The album released on CD digipak format, including a limited edition two-disc booklet with 30 minutes of bonus music.
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Seventeen years (!) and seven albums (!!) down the line and ”¦Trail of Dead are producing some of their most consistent ”“ and best ”“ work yet. That’s not merely noteworthy in this day and age, that’s staggering ”“ and considering Tao of the Dead was written and recorded faster than any of their previous albums by some distance, the only logical conclusion is that, when placed next to 2009’s wonderful The Century of Self, it represents one of rock’s most beloved bands hitting as rich a seam of form as we’ve seen before.
As revered as Source Tags & Codes (their calling card and still the go-to album for noise-rock newbies, with good reason) still is, there are moments on Tao”¦ that surpass it for sheer joyous racket-making. Summer of All Dead Souls and Weight of the Sun (Or the Post-Modern Prometheus), for example, burn with firestorm guitars and air-punching choruses and mix melody and squalls of noise with the deft touch you’d expect from a band this accomplished. The core of the band, Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, might have chosen to switch up their supporting cast but in staying true to their ineffableness they’ve updated their sound without leaving anything behind.
But what makes Tao”¦ feel so fluid is the fact the likes of Cover the Days Like a Tidal Wave, the sunny The Wasteland and Ebb Away, as happily woozy a song as ”¦Trail of Dead have ever written, are so restrained. There’s more of a rhythm and cadence to the record as a whole than we’re used to, and it succeeds in making Tao”¦ arguably more of a complete journey than even Source Tags”¦.
And closing the album with the 16-minute Strange News From Another Planet only accentuates this as it’s like a microcosm of the entire record ”“ fluid, liquid grooves rushing into thudding passages of chunky aggression and back again, all in what feels like the blink of an eye.
The conclusion, then, is clear: both as a standalone record and part of ”¦Trail of Dead’s considerable canon, Tao of the Dead will be remembered as a high point.
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Tao of the Dead (pronounced Dà o (help·info)) is the seventh studio album by Texas rock band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. The first single, "Summer of All Dead Souls", was posted on Spin.com on November 11, 2010, and later on Soundcloud. The digital single released officially on November 29. The album released on CD digipak format, including a limited edition two-disc booklet with 30 minutes of bonus music.
User Album Review
Seventeen years (!) and seven albums (!!) down the line and ”¦Trail of Dead are producing some of their most consistent ”“ and best ”“ work yet. That’s not merely noteworthy in this day and age, that’s staggering ”“ and considering Tao of the Dead was written and recorded faster than any of their previous albums by some distance, the only logical conclusion is that, when placed next to 2009’s wonderful The Century of Self, it represents one of rock’s most beloved bands hitting as rich a seam of form as we’ve seen before.
As revered as Source Tags & Codes (their calling card and still the go-to album for noise-rock newbies, with good reason) still is, there are moments on Tao”¦ that surpass it for sheer joyous racket-making. Summer of All Dead Souls and Weight of the Sun (Or the Post-Modern Prometheus), for example, burn with firestorm guitars and air-punching choruses and mix melody and squalls of noise with the deft touch you’d expect from a band this accomplished. The core of the band, Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, might have chosen to switch up their supporting cast but in staying true to their ineffableness they’ve updated their sound without leaving anything behind.
But what makes Tao”¦ feel so fluid is the fact the likes of Cover the Days Like a Tidal Wave, the sunny The Wasteland and Ebb Away, as happily woozy a song as ”¦Trail of Dead have ever written, are so restrained. There’s more of a rhythm and cadence to the record as a whole than we’re used to, and it succeeds in making Tao”¦ arguably more of a complete journey than even Source Tags”¦.
And closing the album with the 16-minute Strange News From Another Planet only accentuates this as it’s like a microcosm of the entire record ”“ fluid, liquid grooves rushing into thudding passages of chunky aggression and back again, all in what feels like the blink of an eye.
The conclusion, then, is clear: both as a standalone record and part of ”¦Trail of Dead’s considerable canon, Tao of the Dead will be remembered as a high point.
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