ToD's Conrad reveals new album details
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...Trail Of Dead singer Conrad Keely has spoken to Billboard about the band's upcoming fifth album, the follow-up to 2005's underrated Worlds Apart.
Keely revealed that the mixed reception said record received left him questioning his own future:
"I put everything I had into that record, and recording it was a miserable ordeal. After its reception I was pretty much ready to retire from music and find another career, convinced that I wanted nothing more to do with making music for anyone.
“But when we started this new album, which was meant to be an EP, I had a different attitude. Mainly, I tried not to care at all, and approach it with a more 'I don't give a fuck' outlook."
The album, as-yet untitled, will feature contributions from Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer and members of Brothers & Sisters. It'll be released through Interscope on October 2, and the band will tour the States in support. Supporting them will be The Blood Brothers... OH PLEASE LORD let the two tour here, too...
Not that Keely sounds keen to tour, of course:
"I wouldn't mind taking a break from touring all together, and possibly starting a family, somewhere far away like Australia or Venus."
Keely has also allowed fans to follow the progress of ...Trail of Dead's new LP via his MySpace blog. In one entry, dated Friday July 7, he states:
"The mixing... blah, blah, blah. One song, another song, one song, another song. Blah, blah. You could hang the mixing, I wouldn't shed one fucking tear."
He comments on the album's artwork on July 2 (Keely painted the sleeve for Worlds Apart):
"I'm wrestling with the album art again, this time I've decided to tackle one Biblical theme (Salome), a mythological theme (Oedipus), a theme of American 1950's dysfunction, death, urban isolation, and one theme taken from a science fiction novel. So again, a hodgepodge of unrelated ideas that have no relevance and matter little to anyone outside of this lunatic asylum I'm working from."
Lunatic asylum? Anyone would think the man wasn't having a good time earning his living from rock and roll...
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The Blood Brothers
October US tour?
FUCK YES
I hope its like the last one.
The critics are so deluded in their views for it, its ridiculous.
If Worlds Apart had been talked about as a record on its own, and not constantly compared to ST&C, it probably would have been better received. They complain when people do too similar follow ups (ie. Strokes), but then when they try something completely different, they get slated for it.
So it was slighly 'overblown', but it fucking worked, just like 'Siamese Dream' or something.
But yeah its good news. 2006 could quickly become a good year for music. The first six months were fucking terrible.
It was good, but it wasn't as good as ST&C
And that's where it fell down in my opinion, not because they moved further on from their original sound, but because it didn't hold together as well as an album.
That would be a sweet double bill though.
But what about ToL?
WE WANT FOOTBALL.
Worlds Apart
was so toe-curlingly bad. Just horrible. Who the hell wants trail of dead to sound like the bloody pumpkins? If its more of a Madonna type record it could be amazing, they need to get back to the mayhem.
oh em gee!
Trail and the Blood on tour?
Seriously, that would probably be the best show of my entire life...
madonna was their best
and worlds apart, three tracks apart, sucked ass
gave it about 15 listens convinced i'd love it one day
nah-uh
Wold's
I thought World's Apart was ace but i think it suffered from a January release plus it's a tad long.
FUCKYESFUCKWHOOHOO
I listened to World's Apart for the first time in about a year the other day - it's an IMMENSE album. i really think it works better than ST&Cs. that's really bitty. and World's Apart is finally them being the punk pink floyd that they always wanted.
and they could do a video with goblins.
i have risked my hearing for this band many times and i love love love them.
I WANT TO BANG THE GONG
i still think
it's fucking absurd that people ripped into worlds apart. it's good that it didn't sound like madonna, it's good that it didn't sound like st&c, it's good that they fucking branched out and did something new and different and interesting and, dare i say it, original. and it's my favourite ...dead record by a long way.
god bless them, every one. roll on the new record. roll on ToD at dour. roll on that SO NECESSARY uk tour [and here i echo monsieur diver's sentiment re: blood brothers/ToD.]
why should trail of dead
'get back' to anything? why should they rehash something they finished years ago? i love madonna to bits, but if they produced a record that sounded like that, i'd lose a lot of faith in them. may they never produce anything that sounds like madonna ever again; let it remain what it is, without any cheap, latter-day pastiches to sully it.
move forward, trail of dead! give us a record as good as the last one, and better still. give us something we haven't heard before.
they're easily capable of it.
Heavens...
If only they HAD sounded like the Pumpkins. Worlds Apart sucked serious ass. I was astonished to find that it was as bad as Oasis's Be Here Now. I still shudder every time I think about it.
should have downloaded it
in september, at the ULU show I got the filthiest look from jason reece for singing EVERY word to EVERY song.
if people hate that I don't care. sorry.
"Keely says bringing several guest vocalists into the fray, including the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer and members of the Austin band Brothers & Sisters, gave the new album "a diversity that I like. We used a lot of sounds from sample libraries, like native instruments and the like, and relied heavily on Logic Audio as a compositional tool." One track, "Wasted State of Mind" is "based around a Tahitian drum rhythm which involves lots of log drums," according to Keely. The drum parts were later re-recorded by Kim Crimson's Pat Mastelotto."
(is that King crimson?) this all sounds class.
In other news Neil Busch (who did the mark david chapman song off madonna) is in a new band
http://www.myspace.com/thesagittarians
yep
they're not bad, are they? looking forward to hearing more from them. wonder what they're like live...
...
Sure it was. Source tags was filler bookended with some killer at each end. World's Apart in my opinion was all killer. Not one song I think "actually, skip this one".
The Blood Brothers on the other hand can suck my dick. Cause what this country needs is an American Automatic*.
*Of course, in threads about The Automatic, I will be making comments along the lines of "cause what this country needs is a Welsh Blood Brothers". In summary - fuck both bands.
Comparing
The Automatic to the Blood Brothers is crazy.
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