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| Released | August 7, 1996 [1] [2] | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
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| Length | 40:17 | |||
| Label | Cargo/Re-Constriction | |||
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LetDownCrush is the third studio album by 16volt, released on August 7, 1996, by Cargo and Re-Constriction Records. [3] [4] [5]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [6] |
| Alternative Press | [7] |
AllMusic awarded LetDownCrush three out of five possible stars. [6] Aiding & Abetting gave the album a mixed review as well, calling LetDownCrush "diverse, and while obviously not a live-to-tape session, more immediate-sounding" and praised the songs for being "tight and vicious." [8] Alternative Press gave the album a positive review, saying "Hard beats dominate, and beefy guitar plays right into them, maximizing their power to make you wig." [7] Black Monday noted the band's artistic progression in combining the song structure of Skin with the electronics of Wisdom but criticized the metal influences. [9] Sonic Boom lauded Eric Powell's musical maturation and said "the best musical elements from all of his previous work appear like a trail of footprints down well trod path which ends at the edge of a precipice." [10]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Swarm" | Marc LaCorte, Eric Powell | 3:23 |
| 2. | "The Dreams That Rot in Your Heart" | Marc LaCorte, Eric Powell | 3:28 |
| 3. | "A Cloth Like Gauze" | Eric Powell | 4:03 |
| 4. | "Something Left" | Marc LaCorte, Eric Powell | 4:00 |
| 5. | "The Cut Collector" | Eric Powell | 3:52 |
| 6. | "Crush" | Marc LaCorte, Eric Powell | 4:47 |
| 7. | "Breed" | Eric Powell | 3:15 |
| 8. | "Two Wires Thin" | Eric Powell | 4:00 |
| 9. | "Shameface" | Eric Powell | 3:09 |
| 10. | "Carla's Tarantulas" | Eric Powell | 5:59 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 11. | "We Ain't Goin' Out Like That" (Cypress Hill cover) | Louis Freese, Lawrence Muggerud, Richard Todd Ray | 4:15 |
| Year | Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank | |
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| 1995 | CMJ New Music Monthly | United States | "Dance" | 16 | [11] |
| "*" denotes an unordered list. | |||||
Adapted from the LetDownCrush liner notes. [12]
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| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 1996 | Cargo | CD | 72324 84506 27 |
| Re-Constriction | CS | REC-022 | ||
| 2012 | Metropolis | CD, DL | MET 774 |
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