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Track List
01) Calling All Skeletons
02) Nose Over Tail
03) This Could Be Love
04) Every Thug Needs a Lady
05) Clavicle
06) Mercy Me
07) The American Scream
08) We've Had Enough
09) Olde English 800
10) I Held Her in My Arms
11) Blue in the Face
12) I Remember a Rooftop
13) Private Eye
14) You've Got So Far to Go
15) Radio
01) Calling All Skeletons
02) Nose Over Tail
03) This Could Be Love
04) Every Thug Needs a Lady
05) Clavicle
06) Mercy Me
07) The American Scream
08) We've Had Enough
09) Olde English 800
10) I Held Her in My Arms
11) Blue in the Face
12) I Remember a Rooftop
13) Private Eye
14) You've Got So Far to Go
15) Radio
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First Released
2011
Alternative Rock
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Damnesia is the eighth studio album by the punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released July 12, 2011 through their label Heart & Skull, a joint venture with Epitaph Records. A primarily acoustic album, it consists of "a selection of beloved fan favorites selected from the group's extensive catalogue and presented in an intimate semi-unplugged format". The album also includes two new songs, "Olde English 800" and "I Remember a Rooftop", as well as a cover version of the Violent Femmes' "I Held Her in My Arms". A music video consisting of studio footage was released for the song "Clavicle", and the band has embarked a fifteenth-anniversary United States tour in support of the album.
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Chicago punk-rockers turn down the volume on excellent acoustic LP.
In his sparse and suitably shocking novel Closer, author Dennis Cooper has two of his characters partake in violent sex while listening to Slayer’s South of Heaven album. Much is made of the rather kooky artwork of the front sleeve – a skull laying dormant in what one presumes are the fiery furnaces of Hell – and lyrics such as "strangulation, suffocation, death is f***ing you insane," with the implication being that while cruel carnal relations can be truly shocking, this kind of gory excess is frankly a little laughable.
This is not a criticism that could be levelled at Alkaline Trio, a group whose own take on life’s darker colours contains many a subtle nuance. Evidence of this comes in the shape of Damnesia, an album that features acoustic and even ambient re-workings of many of their most popular songs. For while it’s impossible to imagine Slayer’s direct-thrust lyrical approach being accompanied by anything other than the exhilarating noise of violent thrash, similar topics at the mouths of Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano – A3’s principal lyricists – are flexible enough to withstand a more reflective musical treatment.
More than flexible enough, actually. Originally released on the group’s 2003 masterful Good Mourning album, the song This Could Be Love was until now a thickly and expertly layered punk-rock composition featuring a lyric about murder. Stripped of its excess volume, though, the image of a homicidal lover laughing in glee as she washes her lover’s blood from her hands in the icy waters of Lake Michigan stands naked in its unsettling originality. Alkaline Trio have within their music an element of disquiet – where characters are too cold, too lonely, or simply too dead to function as well-rounded people should – that can sometimes be overwhelmed by the exuberance of the popular punk form.
Of course, those wishing to seek out the darker strains of this band’s character can do so simply by reading the lyric sheet – but it could be that some do not. On Damnesia, though, the bare bones and glistening edges are on such clear display that even the most cheerful listener’s day will be darkened by Alkaline Trio's gathering storm clouds.
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Damnesia is the eighth studio album by the punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released July 12, 2011 through their label Heart & Skull, a joint venture with Epitaph Records. A primarily acoustic album, it consists of "a selection of beloved fan favorites selected from the group's extensive catalogue and presented in an intimate semi-unplugged format". The album also includes two new songs, "Olde English 800" and "I Remember a Rooftop", as well as a cover version of the Violent Femmes' "I Held Her in My Arms". A music video consisting of studio footage was released for the song "Clavicle", and the band has embarked a fifteenth-anniversary United States tour in support of the album.
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Chicago punk-rockers turn down the volume on excellent acoustic LP.
In his sparse and suitably shocking novel Closer, author Dennis Cooper has two of his characters partake in violent sex while listening to Slayer’s South of Heaven album. Much is made of the rather kooky artwork of the front sleeve – a skull laying dormant in what one presumes are the fiery furnaces of Hell – and lyrics such as "strangulation, suffocation, death is f***ing you insane," with the implication being that while cruel carnal relations can be truly shocking, this kind of gory excess is frankly a little laughable.
This is not a criticism that could be levelled at Alkaline Trio, a group whose own take on life’s darker colours contains many a subtle nuance. Evidence of this comes in the shape of Damnesia, an album that features acoustic and even ambient re-workings of many of their most popular songs. For while it’s impossible to imagine Slayer’s direct-thrust lyrical approach being accompanied by anything other than the exhilarating noise of violent thrash, similar topics at the mouths of Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano – A3’s principal lyricists – are flexible enough to withstand a more reflective musical treatment.
More than flexible enough, actually. Originally released on the group’s 2003 masterful Good Mourning album, the song This Could Be Love was until now a thickly and expertly layered punk-rock composition featuring a lyric about murder. Stripped of its excess volume, though, the image of a homicidal lover laughing in glee as she washes her lover’s blood from her hands in the icy waters of Lake Michigan stands naked in its unsettling originality. Alkaline Trio have within their music an element of disquiet – where characters are too cold, too lonely, or simply too dead to function as well-rounded people should – that can sometimes be overwhelmed by the exuberance of the popular punk form.
Of course, those wishing to seek out the darker strains of this band’s character can do so simply by reading the lyric sheet – but it could be that some do not. On Damnesia, though, the bare bones and glistening edges are on such clear display that even the most cheerful listener’s day will be darkened by Alkaline Trio's gathering storm clouds.
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