Love Is Love/Return to Dust

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Love Is Love/Return to Dust
Code Orange Kids - Love Is Love-Return to Dust.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 20, 2012 (2012-11-20)
Genre
Length27:07
Label Deathwish
Producer Kurt Ballou
Code Orange Kids chronology
Full of Hell / Code Orange Kids
(2012)
Love Is Love/Return to Dust
(2012)
I Am King
(2014)

Love Is Love/Return to Dust is the debut album by the American hardcore punk band Code Orange Kids. The album was released on November 20, 2012 through Deathwish Inc. [3] A music video for the song "Flowermouth (The Leech)" was released in October 2012. [4]

Contents

The first pressing of the album, limited to 3,000 copies, sold out within the first few weeks of release. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk 90% [1]
Consequence of Sound B [6]

According to AbsolutePunk's Adam Pfleider, the record "tetters the line of sheer terror and savant variation in the context of the larger scale of contemporary hardcore - however you may define it." [1] David Von Bader of Consequence of Sound wrote: "If the album is a sign of things to come, Deathwish has yet again located and presented the best in artistically relevant heavy music." [6]

Love Is Love/Return to Dust ranked at number 23 on AbsolutePunk's top 30 albums of 2012 list, [7] at number 2 on The A.V. Club 's metal column Loud's "best metal, punk, and hardcore of 2012" list [8] and also appeared on The Boston Phoenix's list of top metal albums of 2012. [9]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Flowermouth (The Leech)"2:25
2."Around My Neck // On My Head"1:07
3."Sleep (I've Been Slipping)"1:29
4."Liars // Trudge"3:55
5."Colors (Into Nothing)"3:18
6."Nothing (The Rat)"2:49
7."Roots Are Certain // Sky Is Empty"0:49
8."Choices (Love Is Love)"3:13
9."Calm // Breathe"2:41
10."Bloom (Return to Dust)"5:21
Total length:27:07

Personnel

Love Is Love/Return to Dust personnel according to CD liner notes. [10]

Code Orange Kids

Guest musicians

Production

Artwork and design

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