The Secret of Elena's Tomb

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The Secret of Elena's Tomb
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Secret Of Elenas Tomb.jpg
EP by
ReleasedApril 1, 2003
Studio Blackbird (Berry Hill, Tennessee)
Genre Rock
Length19:17
Label Interscope
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead chronology
Source Tags & Codes
(2002)
The Secret of Elena's Tomb
(2003)
Worlds Apart
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Alternative Press 4/5 [1]
Drowned in Sound 4.5/5 [3]
Filter 88% [1]
Neumu.netStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
No Ripcord7/10 [5]
Pitchfork Media 6.7/10 [6]
PopMatters (positive) [7]
Spin B+ [1]
Tiny Mix Tapes Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]

The Secret of Elena's Tomb is the EP follow up to Source Tags & Codes by Austin, TX band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. The title is inspired by the story of Carl Tanzler.

Track listing

  1. "Mach Schau" – 3:49
  2. "All St. Day" – 3:53
  3. "Crowning of a Heart" – 3:30
  4. "Counting Off the Days" – 3:11
  5. "Intelligence" – 4:55

The enhanced section contains the videos of "Another Morning Stoner" and "Relative Ways" as well as a live video of "All St. Day".

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Critic Reviews for The Secret Of Elena's Tomb (EP)". Metacritic . Retrieved 2013-07-04.
  2. Phares, Heather. "The Secret of Elena's Tomb – ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead". AllMusic .
  3. Dobson, Gareth (2003-03-31). "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Secret Of Elena's Tomb". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on 2005-02-13. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
  4. Womack, Andrew (2003). "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: The Secret Of Elena's Tomb". Neumu.net. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
  5. Draper, Sam (2003-05-12). "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: The Secret of Elena's Tomb". No Ripcord. Retrieved 2013-07-04.
  6. Schreiber, Ryan (2003-03-30). "...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: The Secret of Elena's Tomb EP". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved 2013-07-04.
  7. Thill, Scott (2003-07-09). "...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: The Secret of Elena's Tomb". PopMatters . Retrieved 2013-07-04.
  8. Wolfman (2003). "...And You Will Knows Us by the Trail of Dead - The Secret of Elena's Tomb". Tiny Mix Tapes . Archived from the original on 2012-06-19. Retrieved 2013-07-04.