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Tracklist (CD)
| 1 | | Family System | | 4:17 | | 2 | | Comfortable Liar | | 3:44 | | 3 | | Send The Pain Below | | 4:12 | | 4 | | Closure | | 4:12 | | 5 | | The Red | | 3:58 | | 6 | | Wonder What's Next | | 4:10 | | 7 | | Don't Fake This | | 3:39 |
See more tracks| 8 | | Forfeit | | 3:59 | | 9 | | Grab Thy Hand | | 4:13 | | 10 | | An Evening With El Diablo | | 5:58 | | 11 | | One Lonely Visitor | | 4:08 | | Video-1 | | The Red | | 4:18 | | Video-2 | | The Red - Behind The Scenes | | 5:02 |
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Review
Chevelle's formula becomes clear a few tracks into their second album. For most of these eleven songs, Illinois' Loeffler brothers -- Pete, Sam and Joe -- lay dark, churning riffs over stuttering brontosaurus stomps. Then Pete struggles with repressed emotions ("I liked having hurt/So send the pain below, where I need it"), and resolves the song -- if not the issues -- with a throat-shredding scream. Not surprisingly, the disc is a mirthless affair. No light enters these midtempo, Sabbath-y monochromes, which suits their subject matter. The message:… Read More Express yourself or implode. Few will doubt Pete's sincerity. But songs this charged should offer catharsis. Instead, they sound suffocating. By album's end, he's strumming an acoustic, howling "Am I alone in here?" Some lighter-waving at an arena near you should answer that. ROBERT CHERRY
(RS 910 â November 28, 2002)
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