- Record Label: Superball Music
- Release Date: Oct 22, 2012
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Oct 22, 2012With Lost Songs, it's rekindled the raw, unflinching spirit that, a decade ago, placed the group among rock's elite.
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MagnetDec 4, 2012It's as raucous and vital as their first three. [No. 93, p.52]
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Oct 26, 2012'Lost Souls' is so preposterously raucous it should have the record industry running scared at the point of a pitchfork.
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Nov 1, 2012The album never gets stagnant and avoids the pitfalls of sticking to the same sound or mellowing out with age and ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have quite a few albums in them yet.
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Entertainment WeeklyNov 1, 2012Luckily, the melodic wall of noise crashes through the more heavy-handed moments. [2 Nov 2012, p.68]
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Q MagazineNov 21, 2012They offset their cosmic silliness with molten rock surges and spacey interludes. [Dec 2012, p.99]
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Oct 30, 2012While it may be a shade less inspired than The Tao of the Dead, this is a solid, rugged album that underscores ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead's position as trailblazers and torchbearers when it comes to mixing passion and politics.
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Oct 26, 2012Fantasy epics and agism aside, Lost Songs' strongest moment is also its most personal.
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Oct 25, 2012At its best, Lost Songs' take on post-hardcore imagines an alternate history where indie rock's first-wave originators got to rule the modern-rock radio landscape of the 1990s, rather than just serve as an increasingly diluted influence upon it.
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Oct 22, 2012Lost Songs is brash and sincere, a caterwauling beast of chunky guitar chords and drums that never give you a chance to breathe, and in its best moments is as fiery and hot-blooded and rousing as anything off of those earlier albums fans are always pining for.
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Alternative PressOct 22, 2012The sequencing on Lost Songs is top-loaded with furious rockers that gradually dial down velocity and acceleration toward atmospheres familiar, anthemic and delicate as Conrad Keely's ragged-from-shouting vocal style continues to command attention. [Nov 2012, p.86]
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Oct 22, 2012Lost Songs ain't a new direction for ToD. Far from it. But it's a frenetic, committed album oozing passion at every turn, and the world would be poorer without it.
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Nov 8, 2012A welcome noise to these mandolin and Simon & Garfunkel–influenced days, Lost Songs is anything but: muscular songwriting, enviable melodies, ferocious playing, dazzling production.
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Oct 23, 2012Lost Songs splits the difference between some of the more overly emotive/dramatic Trail of Dead featured on recent albums, and the frenetic, exciting Trail of Dead of its the early years.
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Oct 24, 2012It looks like there may be some wind left in this crew's sails after all.
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Oct 22, 2012It doesn't always work, and the softer 'Awestruck' is kinda preachy. But when the vitriol is squeezed into Fugazi-via-My Bloody Valentine-via-Sonic Youth swagger, as on the mighty 'Catatonic', it's admirable.
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Oct 22, 2012This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.