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Band Name: Poison The Well
Album Name: Versions
Rating: 3.5 / 5 User Rating: 3.7 / 5
Label: Ferret Records
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Tracklist
1. Letter Thing
2. Breathing's For The Birds
3. Nagaina
4. The Notches That Create Your Headboard
5. Pleading Post
6. Slow Good Morning
7. Prematurito El Baby
8. Composer Meet Corpse
9. You Will Not Be Welcomed
10. Naive Monarch
11. Riverside
12. The First Day Of My Second Life
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Poison The Well has endured their own hardships since their last release "You Come Before You". One of those was the loss of a member and their brief major label stint. This band was not a band you could really see on a major label hence why they dropped their signers and went on to make their new pride "Versions".
I have never been a fan of this band, I enjoyed material off of "Opposite of December" like many, but I didn't cry about a girl while I did it. Since that impressionable disc the band has gone through their sound changes and their last album "You Come Before You" was foreshadowing of "Versions" in that sense. The new album shows a very much older and more mature Poison The Well branching out.
With the addition to instrumental melee in this new one (including banjo, slide guitar amongst many others) the songs profess a "we go which way we please" tone. The result is an album with plenty of songs teetering back and forth from heavy, to almost alternative, to just good song writing. The approach is very clear on this album that they are trying different things and that shows in a good way but some tracks you just feel they were trying to hard to accomplish something else. Regardless if not every track is exceptional, it is clear that PTW are on their way down a new path which will prove even more interesting in years to come.
Review by: Dave Huffy
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