Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Size Of Your Life | | 3:09 | | 2 | | Stop Playing Guitar | | 5:05 | | 3 | | Suffer Never | | 4:10 | | 4 | | Become One Anything One Time | | 4:19 | | 5 | | Wake Up April | | 5:06 | | 6 | | Get On The Floor | | 4:07 | | 7 | | Half Year Sun | | 5:40 |
See more tracks| 8 | | My Life Is At Home | | 4:15 | | 9 | | Letters To The Far Reaches | | 2:29 | | 10 | | Bread And Coffee | | 3:53 | | 11 | | Say Goodbye Good | | 6:36 | | 12 | | Feed The Night | | 3:04 |
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Review
In order to save themselves, emo figureheads the Promise Ring have slowed their roll. Wood/Water, their first on Epitaph Records, is less blatantly melodic, peppy and cloying than their three albums on scene-making label Jade Tree. The best moments here are two wide-open sheafs of earnest guitar pop: "My Life Is at Home" and the spare "Half Year Sun," on which singer-songwriter Davey von Bohlen is lonely and rambling, self-doubting and a mite deranged. Capturing the impossibility of clean romantic breaks, he eerily declaims, "At the base… Read More of your skull, I've got a place there still." But the real relationship that's in trouble here is the one the group has with the genre it once represented so fiercely. As a result, "Get on the Floor" and "Stop Playing Guitar" are wistful remembrances, music about music-making. "In a second life, I'd never become a singer," von Bohlen confesses. "They've all gone mad, sad and angry." True, but that's where all the beauty comes from. JON CARAMANICA
(RS 895 - May 9, 2002)
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