We Sing of Only Blood or Love
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| We Sing of Only Blood or Love | ||||
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| Released | August 21, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Blues rock, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 38:00 | |||
| Label | Fat Possum | |||
| Producer | Matt Sweeney, Dax Riggs | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [1] |
| Pitchfork | 5.7/10[2] |
| Exclaim! | —[3] |
We Sing of Only Blood or Love (erroneously titled We Sing Only of Blood or Love on the vinyl format) is the debut solo album by American singer and songwriter Dax Riggs. It was slated to be the next Deadboy and the Elephantmen album before the band's dissolution. Riggs decided to release it under his own name on August 21, 2007. Matt Sweeney provided a combination of guitar, bass, piano, and backing vocals for all of the tracks, as well as producing the record.
We Sing of Only Blood or Love is dominated by dark neo-blues rock songwriting structures and also contains heavy metal, folk music, gothic rock, protopunk, and some experimental material. The album is a continuation of Riggs' musical evolution since fronting the Louisiana sludge metal band Acid Bath in the 1990s. Riggs uses a trained, rich vocal style most frequently sung in a blues-influenced baritone rasp. His lyrics contain various stylistic elements of metaphor and imagery, and touch upon personal and poetic subjects such as death, love, Satan, nocturnal hallucinations, mortality, phantoms, and morbidity.
