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Source Tags And Codes

And You Will Know Us By the Tr Audio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (122 customer reviews)
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With their first major-label release, Austin's most destructive live act will hopefully move from notoriety for trashing their instruments to appreciation for the way they use them. Source Tags & Codes is the third release from the band with the long name, and it is a volatile time bomb of emo, art rock, and post rock that explodes with emotion on every song. The walls of guitar effects and tense, heated vocals provide the band's driving aggression, but they soften the blows with bouts of dark melody, even adding strings and piano in places. The album should please fans of bands such as At the Drive In, Unwound, and Les Savy Fav, but Source Tags & Codes weighs in as heavier, noisier, and, in places, more tormented and beautiful than those bands. With enough twists in its movements to ward off any signs of predictability, Source Tags & Codes is an impressive rock collage that exposes new musical layers with each listen. --Jennifer Maerz

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Artist, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. UK edition of the U.S. emo band's 2002 album includes one bonus track, 'Blood Rites'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars don't let the band name fool you July 2 2004
Format:Audio CD
I picked this up after weeks of incessant urging by a friend of mine. I respect (although often disagree) with his taste in music and I had reservations about this one. I was expecting black spiked leather/gay biker/mullet speed metal or something in that vein. I couldn't have been more wrong. Not that this album doesn't have testicular fortitude- it flat out rocks. But it is subtle in the right places. I wouldn't call them ballads, but TOD scales it back a couple times, then hits you in the forehead with a claw hammer. The haunting segues between songs add a very nice feel as well. I can't recommend this more strongly. One of the few albums I'd classify as a "must have".
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4.0 out of 5 stars So i finally picked this album up again Jun 14 2004
By Jake
Format:Audio CD
i've had this album probably since '02. i just recently picked this up again and decided how good it was. This was truly my first introduction to "indie rock" as it was known, but i had no idea that this was that. I have since then listened to all sorts of indie stuff but i'm very glad i came back to this record for several reasons. Versatality is a huge one. The record plays from start to finish and it has many personalities. There are great pop melodies (it was there) and things that drift more to hardcore (track #4). The strange thing is that the album works very very well as a whole as well. The songs themselves are great but to really let this sink in..listen to it many times straight through. Listen to the skill of the single note melodies-and the nice full melodic sound of the bass throughout "it was there" (among others). Feel Conrads pain as he screams in track #4 and also listen to the amazing (different) lyrics that are on this record. Especially relative ways. This whole album is not the most accessible thing to most people. It will take a lot of time to really get into it, but its completely worth it once you start actually singing the guitar parts because you know them so well. Yeah, so overall this album is great and i would encourage fans of ATDI, Mars Volta, Flaming Lips, and Pavement to really check these guys out. Flaming lips seem out of place but if you listen to the last track on the record-completely flaming lips style. But yes, all in all, great record and its completely worth the money.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful noise May 13 2004
Format:Audio CD
Not a bad little album. Nothing mind-blowing or remarkably new, but what's done is done well. At its best, there's a lot of inspired and wonderful noise - the way the band plays with dynamics reminds me a lot of Fugazi (which is a very good thing indeed). At its worst, this sounds like a nameless and forgotten early 90s Seattle act.
Thankfully, the bad moments are few and far between, and the good moments are frequent. And there's enough odd bleeps and burbles and hidden sounds to keep the listener entertained and continually discovering new bits of the album - always a nice touch.
In particular, the closing track is a thing of great beauty - starting off with a Pavement-ish progression before exploding into glorious noise and then an odd orchestral bit - very nice.
Definitely an album worth exploring, providing you don't expect something paradigm-shifting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars masterpiece.
I was reading Kelly Link stories and I decided this was a masterpiece. I'm listening to Husker Du; Zen Arcade of course. Read more
Published on May 30 2004 by Francis Patsen
4.0 out of 5 stars Oh man,,,,,takes me back a few years
I was at the University of Texas in Austin when these guys just started out. You can not believe the buzz about them that developed among the intella-indie scene around west... Read more
Published on May 11 2004 by Colin L Garrett
5.0 out of 5 stars Hey I remember when rock was this good
Killer record that flows tremendously well from beginning to end. So they're a bit derivative, what isn't? the album still rocks like a mother focker. Read more
Published on April 18 2004 by "bloodcoated"
3.0 out of 5 stars Was Grunge a Dream?
When I spun this disc I felt like it was 1993 all over again and I was waking up to "Serve the Servants" and going to bed with "Release. Read more
Published on Mar 9 2004 by D. Best
5.0 out of 5 stars The sound of a world unraveling
If the Earth suddenly realized it had been dead for a long, long time, these songs are the sounds it would make as it blinked out of existence. Read more
Published on Jan 23 2004 by Evil Mr. Egg
5.0 out of 5 stars Coming together in relative ways...
This is one of the finest albums of the decade so far, a sprawling and magnificent collision of wildly diverse musical styles resulting in a record of epic sonic and emotional... Read more
Published on Jan 12 2004 by Vikram Joseph
4.0 out of 5 stars beauty, eh...
...loud, distorted and derivative: That describes some of my favorite bands of all time! Let's face it people, it all overlaps. Read more
Published on Jan 6 2004 by Johnny Utah
3.0 out of 5 stars Loud, distorted, and derivative
You know hard rock fans are starved for something good (or even competent) when a band like this gets so much praise. Read more
Published on Dec 12 2003 by SPM
5.0 out of 5 stars Now I can't find anything else as good
I'll echo the sentiments expressed here. The first time I heard this album, the explosion of "It Was Then That I Saw You" hooked me. Read more
Published on Nov 21 2003 by "facemanmvp"
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy this CD more and more over time...
At first listen upon release, I had mixed thoughts about this raucous, indie rock album. I loved the compositions, but the lyrics were indistinguishable and the complexity of the... Read more
Published on Nov 15 2003 by Doctor Robert
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