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- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Feb 26, 2002
- Summary: Following the critical success of their 1999 effort, 'Madonna,' the lengthily-named Austin, Texas indie band signed with Interscope and recorded this, their major-label debut.
- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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| And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Miscellaneous How Near How Far Looking back in time Through verses set in nursery rhyme At oil painted... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 17 out of 18
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Mixed: 1 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Their finest record to date and the most blistering, blissful album to be released by anyone in years.
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Source Tags and Codes is phenomenal. It's one of those albums that starts the listener on a seeminlgly unsustainable high note, and uses that as a launching point.
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For all its gonzo, crackpot gestures, Source Tags & Codes is a remarkably coherent work. It stands as the most melodically-inclined album in their catalogue and boasts their strongest songwriting to date.
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'Source Tags And Codes' comes with an albatross-like weight of expectation round its skinny neck - yet happily, it's supported by a band who have grown to match it.
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Sure, they make use of their obviously higher budget and Source Tags And Codes sounds more rich and layered because of it, but like Modest Mouse with The Moon And Antarctica, they've used these new elements to accent their music, not destroy it.
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UncutCompared to so many noisemongers, TOD understand that restraint enables unleashed firepower to be exhilarating and awesome. [Apr 2002, p.111]
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Q Magazine...Trail of Dead have reached a point where the need for convention outweighs the joy of using guitars as weapons. [Feb 2002, p.104]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 27
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Mixed: 2 out of 27
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Negative: 1 out of 27
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SusanH.Mar 6, 2002Revolutionary, powerful, dangerous, a breath of something new, rock-n-roll's last exhilarating lunge... or it's next great lunch.
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ALexMay 16, 2002This is a really good album.. It's one of those albums that surprises you... it gets better every time you listen to it.
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MikeF.Sep 17, 2002very very good
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SeamusSMar 27, 2006Near Perfect A Masterpiece of this time
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DudeLOVENov 21, 2006This album is phenomelajgag.wgr. love it.
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brodyDec 18, 2002great album. it holds together surpisingly well as an entire album rather than just a collection of songs. deftinitely better than i expected.
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MarkCDec 21, 2002Hi, this is the worst crap of all time.
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