Give Them Rope

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Give Them Rope
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1, 1997 (reissued in 2004)
Recorded1996 [1]
StudioRed House Studios
(Lawrence, Kansas)
Genre Metalcore, mathcore
Length38:56
Label Edision
Producer Ed Rose
Coalesce chronology
Among the Dead We Pray for Light
(1997)
Give Them Rope
(1997)
Functioning on Impatience
(1998)
Alternative cover
Givethemrope.jpg
2004 re-issue artwork
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
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Give Them Rope is the debut full-length album by American metalcore band Coalesce, originally released on June 1, 1997, through Edision Recordings. It was re-released in 2004 in a remastered and remixed format under the name Give Them Rope, She Said with new artwork. A two-disc deluxe compact disc edition was released by Relapse Records in 2011, this time using the original artwork and title. This album has never charted. [5]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Have Patience"3:11
2."One on the Ground"3:42
3."Cut to Length"3:07
4."For All You Are"3:30
5."Still It Sells"4:12
6."Chain Smoking"3:41
7."Did It Pay the Rent?"4:54
8."Every Reason To"3:36
9."I Am Not the First"0:58
10."This Is the Last"4:04
11."I Took a Year"4:01

Personnel

Coalesce
Production
Artwork

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalogNotes
United States June 1, 1997Edision Recordings LP, CD, CS edison 006
June 1, 2004Edision RecordingsCDRemastered edition, features new artwork and is titled Give Them Rope, She Said V2.0. LP edition released by No Idea would later be repressed in 2008.
Blue Collar DistroBCD01
No Idea Records LPNIR-153
November 22, 2011 Relapse Records 2xCDRR7160Two-disc set, first disc is the original mix of the album, the second disc is the 2004 remaster edition.
No Sleep Records 2xLPNSR059

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