I Can Tell You About Pain

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"I Can Tell You About Pain"
I Can Tell You About Pain.jpg
Single by Converge
from the album The Dusk in Us
B-side "Eve"
ReleasedJuly 25, 2017 (2017-07-25)
Genre
Length10:00
Label
Songwriter(s) [1]
Producer(s) Kurt Ballou
Converge singles chronology
"'Converge / Napalm Death'"
(2012)
"I Can Tell You About Pain"
(2017)
"Endless Arrow"
(2020)

"I Can Tell You About Pain" is a single by American metalcore band Converge. It was released on July 25, 2017, as a 7-inch vinyl record via Epitaph and Deathwish, Inc., [2] [3] with the much longer track "Eve" as a B-side. The music video for the song "I Can Tell You About Pain" was directed by Tony Wolski. [4]

Contents

Music and critical reception

Consequence of Sound's Randall Colburn wrote: ""Eve" serves as a contrast to "I Can Tell You About Pain", as its seven-plus minutes incorporate group chants and menacing synths into its crashing guitars and pummeling percussion, giving the song an eerie epicness." [2] Stereogum writer Tom Breihan described "Eve" as "a monstrous epic", and stated: "Both songs are punishing in very different ways." [4] Pitchfork critic Saby Reyes-Kulkarni thought that "I Can Tell You About Pain"'s production style "almost leans in a black metal direction, giving the song a deceptively quick-and-dirty sound." Reyes-Kulkarni further stated: "This ability to switch from surgically precise to blunt and back again is what keeps Converge continually gripping." [5]

Andy Cush of Spin wrote: "The former ["I Can Tell You About Pain"] is quick and raw, finding the band in full-on firebreathing madness mode; the latter ["Eve"] is an unusually moody epic that clocks in at nearly eight minutes long." [3] Graham Hartmann from Loudwire described "Eve" as "a more experimental piece of Converge's catalogue", stating: "Focusing on doom and drone characteristics, Converge stretch out the expansive track in a way that feels truly inspired. Kurt Ballou's production is top-notch, as always, building a colossal wall of sound for "Eve" that remains dense even in its softest moments." [6] Treble Zine wrote that the former track is "an intense, rhythmically jerky noise-rock burner" while the latter "has some common traits with Oakland sludge innovators Neurosis, with whom the band is touring this summer." [7]

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRankRef.
Loudwire 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017
10
[8]
SPIN The 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017
8
[9]

Track listing

All songs written by Converge.

  1. "I Can Tell You About Pain" – 2:24
  2. "Eve" – 7:36

Personnel

Converge

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References

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