Crimes | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | October 12, 2004 | |||
Recorded | March–April 2004 | |||
Studio | Robert Lang Studios (Seattle, Washington) | |||
Genre | Post-hardcore | |||
Length | 39:04 | |||
Label | V2 Epitaph (reissue) | |||
Producer | John Goodmanson | |||
The Blood Brothers chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 85/100 [1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
Drowned in Sound | (9/10) [3] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.5/10) [4] |
Rolling Stone | [5] |
Stylus | [6] |
Crimes is the fourth studio album by the American band The Blood Brothers, released on October 12, 2004, by V2 Records. It was the band's first major label album. Produced by John Goodmanson, the album was recorded in two months in the band's hometown of Seattle.
Much of the lyrics for the album are a political reaction to the mass media and the military policy of the Bush administration, [7] inspired heavily by the election year of 2004. "I thought the collective dissent of our generation would bring about positive change. When that didn't happen I felt like the bottom had fallen out," vocalist Jordan Blilie commented. [8]
All songs written by The Blood Brothers.
2009 reissue bonus tracks [9]
The album was originally leaked as a 19-track unmastered CD. The following tracks were on the leaked version but not the final version of the album:
Of the cut tracks, "Ladies and Gentlemen". "Metronomes" and the alternate version of "Crimes" were released on the band's Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck EP released in 2006.
First pressing: 333 copies
Second pressing: 3,050 copies
Third pressing: 979 copies
Fourth pressing: 1,014 copies
Fifth pressing:
Sixth pressing
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