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Alkaline Trio – Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 35:54 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Punk Rock
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Amazingly, 26 years and 10 albums in, Alkaline Trio still has enough punk puns in their back pocket to kick off an album with “Hot for Preacher.” Of course, anything less would be disappointing, and this is not a band who made their bones by failing to deliver what fans expect. That sense of familiarity makes Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs an easy-to-grok record but also makes it something of a predictable one. The gang choruses, energetic pop-punk harmonies, and stop-start dynamics are all here, and, more notably, the core lineup of Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano is still intact, more than a quarter-century after the band’s debut. (Longtime drummer Derek Grant departed soon after Blood’s recording.) While it’s clear on soaring, dynamic cuts like “Shake With Me” and “Scars” that the band is still quite capable of crafting smart, anthemic punk rock, other tracks—the straightforward rocker “Broken Down in a Time Machine” or the meandering midtempo “Versions of You”—show that the band is content to let a kernel of an idea substitute for a fully thought-out composition. Punk rock being punk rock, this is far from a cardinal sin, and Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs is a remarkably strong album that manages to balance the band’s status as elder eminences with the inherent limitations of the form. Album closer “Teenage Heart” could have been a dull bit of nostalgia—or worse, a weak-sauce attempt to connect with “the kids”—but instead it finds the band reflective on the sad state of affairs in the country. A chorus like “All I want for Christmas is an AR-15/ My stocking stuffed with fentanyl” would have been gimmicky and trite in lesser hands, but Alkaline Trio are wearied, wizened warriors who refuse to give up the fight. – Jason Ferguson
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Alkaline Trio – Is This Thing Cursed? (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:52 minutes | 478 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epitaph
Is This Thing Cursed? is the upcoming ninth studio album by American punk rock band Alkaline Trio, set to be released on August 31, 2018 on Epitaph Records. Produced and mixed by Cameron Webb, the album was announced alongside the release of the lead single, “Blackbird”. It is their first release since 2013’s My Shame Is True, with its five-year gap being the longest between studio albums.
Vocalist and bassist Dan Andriano compared the recording process to that of the band’s early days, “the songwriting process is almost like what it was back in the day. We would just kind of write a song, be excited about it, then move on. We wrote in that spirit in the studio. I really feel like we made a record that the old school fans are going to dig.” The band also compared Is This Thing Cursed? to their second album, Maybe I’ll Catch Fire.
Themes and topics covered on the album include depression, the 2016 presidential election, the Access Hollywood tape, the band’s hometown of Chicago, and the Fyre Festival that vocalist and guitarist Matt Skiba was set to headline with Blink-182, but cancelled.
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