Acoustic Verses

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Acoustic Verses
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Studio album by
Green Carnation
ReleasedJanuary 30, 2006
Recorded2005
StudioBrown Sound Studios, Jailhouse Studios and Dub Studio
Genre Acoustic rock, soft rock
Length43:29
Label Sublife Productions
Producer Green Carnation
Green Carnation chronology
The Burden Is Mine... Alone
(2005)		Acoustic Verses
(2006)		 Leaves of Yesteryear
(2020)

Acoustic Verses is the fifth full-length studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Green Carnation. It was released on January 30, 2006, via Sublife Productions. [1]

Contents

The album features three songs included on their 2005 EP The Burden Is Mine... Alone : "Sweet Leaf", "The Burden Is Mine... Alone", as well as the cover of Jon English's 1978 international hit "Six Ribbons" (only in the special edition).

Background

Acoustic Verses was another stylistic shift for Green Carnation. On the album, as the name suggests, the band played all acoustic instruments, showing off a softer, warmer style for the band while retaining the progressive and darker feels they established since their debut. Acoustic Verses was a change with respect to the previous works of the group, in which practically all their members participated in its composition.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Blabbermouth.net (8/10) [3]
Chronicles of Chaos (8/10) [4]
Exclaim! favorable [5]
Metal Storm (Avg:8.5/10) [6]
PopMatters (7/10) [7]

The album was met with positive reviews. Blabbermouth.net rated it with an eight and described it as "it's as lush, orchestrated, and enigmatic as any 'electric' album from this quizzical band". [8]

Laura Taylor of Exclaim! said "similar to Opeth’s Damnation in some respects, Acoustic Verses covers more ground, perhaps in part because of the number of songwriters involved, but the album’s stylistic experimentation is very much in line with the Green Carnation’s proven pattern". [9]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsLength
1."Sweet Leaf" Tchort 4:38
2."The Burden Is Mine...Alone"Stein Roger Sordal3:15
3."Maybe?" Kjetil Nordhus 5:02
4."Alone"Tchort (after Edgar Allan Poe)3:43
5."9-29-045 *"Stein Roger Sordal15:29
6."Childs Play Part III" Bernt André Moen 3:32
7."High Tide Waves"Tommy Jackson / Music by Michael Smith Krumins7:49
Total length:43:29
Limited edition bonus track
No.TitleLyricsLength
8."Six Ribbons" (Jon English cover) Jon English 3:10
Total length:46:39
*Note
  1. "My Greater Cause"
  2. "Homecoming"
  3. "House of Cards"

[10]

Personnel

Green Carnation

Guest musicians

Recording information

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