Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord

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Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 22, 2006
StudioThe Foundation Recording Studios, Connersville, Indiana
Genre
Length39:55
Label Rise
Producer Joey Sturgis
The Devil Wears Prada chronology
Patterns of a Horizon
(2005)
Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord
(2006)
Plagues
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Absolute Punk (90%) [3]
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Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord is the debut studio album by American metalcore band The Devil Wears Prada. [5] It was released on August 22, 2006 through Rise Records.

Contents

Overview

The album includes re-recorded versions of all tracks from the band's demo Patterns of a Horizon, and two original tracks, "Texas is South" and "Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over". The closing track "Salvation" features guest vocals from Cole Wallace of Gwen Stacy.[ citation needed ] "Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over" is available for download via the Rock Band Network.[ citation needed ]

Reception

Stewart Mason of Allmusic described The Devil Wears Prada as "fairly wide-ranging in its influences", in their take on the metalcore genre, comparing the James Baney's keys to European symphonic metal, while describing Jeremy DePoyster's clean vocals as emo-tinged. He also remarked the album's sound and arrangements to be an improvement over the debut, rendering the demo only essential for "completists". [6]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Mike Hranica; all music is composed by The Devil Wears Prada

No.TitleLength
1."The Ascent"1:10
2."Gauntlet of Solitude"2:42
3."Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over"3:29
4."And the Sentence Trails Off..."4:13
5."Rosemary Had an Accident"5:10
6."Redemption"0:52
7."Swords, Dragons & Diet Coke"4:06
8."Who Speaks Spanish, Colon Quesadilla"3:58
9."Texas Is South"6:08
10."Modeify the Pronunciation"4:35
11."Salvation"3:36
Total length:39:55

Personnel

The Devil Wears Prada

Production

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