Video: Trail of Dead, ‘Summer of All Dead Souls’
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It’s been almost a decade since And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were anointed rock gods, their third album “Source Tags & Codes” earning a very-hard-to-argue 10 out of 10 from Pitchfork, whose review promised listeners “you will never, ever be the same.” It’s been that way for the band too – four more albums of hits and misses, a shifting lineup around principals Conrad Keely and Jason Reece, a departure from Interscope to do things on their own. Trail of Dead’s 2009 indie release “The Century of Self” didn’t exactly inspire further hero worship, but the band is firing on all cylinders – hell, they’ve rebuilt the engine – on “Tao of the Dead,” released earlier this year. Their seventh album is a head-bursting netherworld of seething, tangled guitars and artillery-fire beats, and overall more tightly wound than anything they’ve conceived in years. Noise, prog, indie, metal – they could all be source tags for “Tao,” which, thankfully, posits Trail of Dead as their very own thing.
||| Live: Trail of Dead, supported by Ringo Deathstarr, plays the Echoplex on Friday.
I have always LOVED Trail of Dead. Source Tage & Codes was genius. So glad they’re back. Thanks for the heads up, Kevin!
[…] Video: Trail of Dead, 'Summer of All Dead Souls' It's been almost a decade since And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were anointed rock gods, their third album “Source Tags & Codes” earning a very-hard-to-argue 10 out of 10 from Pitchfork, whose review promised […]
Source tag & codes will be incredibly difficult to top… but I am more than willing the give their new stuff a try. These guys are madmen.