Crimes (album)

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ReleasedOctober 12, 2004
RecordedMarch–April 2004
StudioRobert Lang Studios (Seattle, Washington)
GenrePost-hardcore, sass[1]
Crimes
Studio album by
The Blood Brothers
ReleasedOctober 12, 2004
RecordedMarch–April 2004
StudioRobert Lang Studios (Seattle, Washington)
GenrePost-hardcore, sass[1]
Length39:04
LabelV2
Epitaph (reissue)
ProducerJohn Goodmanson
The Blood Brothers chronology
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
(2003)		 Crimes
(2004)		 Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic85/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStar[3]
Alternative PressStarStarStarStarStar[4]
BlenderStarStarStarHalf star[5]
Drowned in Sound9/10[6]
NME8/10[7]
Pitchfork7.5/10[8]
PlaylouderStarStarStarStarHalf star[9]
Rolling StoneStarStarStar[10]
SpinA−[11]
URBStarStarStarStar[12]

Crimes is the fourth studio album by the American band The Blood Brothers, released on October 12, 2004, by V2 Records. It was the band's first major label album. Produced by John Goodmanson, the album was recorded in two months in the band's hometown of Seattle.

Much of the lyrics for the album are a political reaction to the mass media and the military policy of the Bush administration,[13] inspired heavily by the election year of 2004. "I thought the collective dissent of our generation would bring about positive change. When that didn't happen I felt like the bottom had fallen out," vocalist Jordan Blilie commented.[14]

  • "Feed Me to the Forest" is "a picture of the hyper-industrialized times we live in".
  • "Trash Flavored Trash" is "about the emptiness of news media".
  • "Teen Heat" is about the distribution company Artistdirect with whom the band was having difficulties at the time.
  • "Celebrator" and "Devastator" are direct criticisms of the United States' military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Track listing

All songs written by The Blood Brothers.

  1. "Feed Me to the Forest" – 2:23
  2. "Trash Flavored Trash" – 2:38
  3. "Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck" – 3:14
  4. "Peacock Skeleton with Crooked Feathers" – 4:31
  5. "Teen Heat" – 2:07
  6. "Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy" – 3:52
  7. "Crimes" – 4:00
  8. "My First Kiss at the Public Execution" – 2:50
  9. "Live at the Apocalypse Cabaret" – 3:12
  10. "Beautiful Horses" – 1:47
  11. "Wolf Party" – 3:28
  12. "Celebrator" – 2:16
  13. "Devastator" – 2:45

2009 reissue bonus tracks[15]

  1. "Ladies and Gentlemen" - 2:46
  2. "Metronomes" - 4:55
  3. "Crimes (alt. version)" - 3:55
  4. "Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers (alt. version)" - 3:30
  5. "Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck (live)" - 3:21
  6. "Trash Flavored Trash - Live" (Reading Festival 2005) - 2:44
  7. "Peacock Skeleton With Crooked Feathers - Live" (Reading Festival 2005) - 4:39
  8. "My First Kiss at the Public Execution - Live" (Reading Festival 2005) - 2:35
  9. "Live at the Apocalypse Cabaret - Live" (Reading Festival 2005) - 3:45
  10. "Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy - Live" (Reading Festival 2005) - 4:04
  11. "Teen Heat - Live" (Reading Festival 2005) - 2:02

Album leak

The album was originally leaked as a 19-track unmastered CD. The following tracks were on the leaked version but not the final version of the album:

  • "Ladies and Gentlemen" (also known as "Champagne Party")
  • "Metronomes"
  • "Wolf Faced Gladiators" (also known as "Gladiators")
  • "Crimes (Alternate Version)"
  • "Rats And Rats And Rats For Candy (Acoustic Riff)"
  • "Noise"

Of the cut tracks, "Ladies and Gentlemen". "Metronomes" and the alternate version of "Crimes" were released on the band's Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck EP released in 2006.

Personnel

Vinyl information

References

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