I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Crime in Stereo album)

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I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone
I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 23, 2010
Genre Melodic Hardcore
Post-Hardcore
Length39:57
Label Bridge Nine
Producer Mike Sapone
Crime in Stereo chronology
Crime in Stereo Is Dead
(2007)
I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone
(2010)
House and Trance
(2023)

I Was Trying to Describe You To Someone is the fourth studio album by American melodic hardcore band, Crime in Stereo. It was released on February 23, 2010 on Bridge Nine Records, their last release for the label. [1] The band released a new song, "Drugwolf", on their MySpace page on January 19, 2010.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Alternative Press Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Alter the Press!Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Inked(favorable) [4]
Pastepunk(favorable) [5]
Redefine(somewhat favorable) [6]
review rinse repeatStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Rock SoundStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
ThePunkSite.comStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
TMTM(9.4/10) [10]
Strange GlueStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Under The Gun ReviewStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [12]

The record received a review of 4.5/5 in the March 2010 issue of Alternative Press magazine. The magazine described it as an "equally ambitious, unpredictable follow-up..." to their third release ...Is Dead.

Exclaim! named "I Was Trying to Describe You To Someone" as the No. 5 Punk Album of 2010. [13]


Track listing

  1. "Queue Moderns" - 1:59
  2. "Drugwolf" - 3:53
  3. "Exit Halo" - 5:45
  4. "Not Dead" - 3:21
  5. "Odalisque" - 3:45
  6. "Young" - 3:50
  7. "Type One" - 3:52
  8. "Republica" - 4:13
  9. "I Am Everything I Am Not" - 3:57
  10. "Dark Island City" - 2:23
  11. "I Cannot Answer You Tonight" - 3:05

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  2. Shultz, Brian (March 2010). "File Under: Melodic Artcore". Alternative Press . Vol. 24, no. #260. Cleveland, Ohio: Alternative Press Magazines Inc. p. 92. ISSN   1065-1667.
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