Trail Of Dead: referencing their critics with new album title?

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by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 13 comments 15:26 September 22nd, 2006

The new album from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - the follow-up to last year's Worlds Apart - is to be called So Divided.

Upon hearing this news, DiS's Colin Roberts was heard to remark: "Is that a comment on the reviews they received for their last album?" That might be slightly paraphrased, but whatever: Worlds Apart was, of course, rather less-than-favourably reviewed by some critics (DiS rather sat on the fence, here).

So Divided is to be released on November 13. Among its eleven tracks is a cover of Guided By Voices' 'Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory'. The full tracklisting is as follows...

'Intro: A Song of Fire and Wine'
'Stand in Silence'
'Wasted State of Mind'
'Naked Sun'
'Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory'
'So Divided'
'Life'
'Eight Day Hell'
'Witches Web'
'Segue: In the Realms of the Unreal'
'Sunken Dreams'

Conrad Keely terrifies me. Photograph by Gen Williams.

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I really really

can't wait. It will be ace.

Jolley | 22 Sep '06, 15:45 | X | Reply

i fear

they may mess up one of my favourite gbv songs. but hopefully if its not too bad it'll at least turn more people onto them.

Jamie_Summers | 22 Sep '06, 16:00 | X | Reply

Interesting to see..

...how this will go down. I think it may well be a reference to their critics, particularly pitchfork and the NME, who Trail of Dead have always had a love/hate relationship with. From song titles alone, it seems to be a touch more abstract than 'World's Apart', which sounds promising because TOD are always at their best when they're not trying to hard lyrically. Also I notice they've done a new version of 'Witches Web' for the album, which is a very beautiful song. Reasons to be cheerful.

Lofisongsaregreat @Jolley | 22 Sep '06, 16:06 | X | Reply

I sorta

hope they're a wee bit more angry this time round. I read on Billboard that some stuff is like Source Tags, but then Conrad's saying that it's very similar to World's Apart. I have faith that I'll at least enjoy it.
If only Interscope gave us (the punters) a little flavour of the album, like maybe a single or even a song on their Myspace page, but no, they continue to sit on this band they haven't a clue how to market or know what to do with and then blame them for poor album sales.

dazedmarc | 22 Sep '06, 16:51 | X | Reply

everything that...

trail of dead release always make me dead happy. my personal favourite is their self titled effort. and conrad keely is fucking cool, although a little chunky these days.

joe_riot | 22 Sep '06, 18:30 | X | Reply