Vessel States

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Vessel States
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 11, 2006
RecordedFall of 2005
Genre Art rock
Label Jagjaguwar JAG093
Producer Chad Clark and T.J. Lipple
Wilderness chronology
Wilderness
(2005)
Vessel States
(2006)
(k)no(w)here
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 76/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Pitchfork Media 7.5/10 [3]

Vessel States is the second studio album by Baltimore band Wilderness. It was recorded, mixed and mastered in the fall of 2005, by Chad Clark and T.J. Lipple at Silver Sonya in Arlington, Virginia.

Track listing

  1. "The Blood Is on the Wall"
  2. "Beautiful Alarms"
  3. "Emergency"
  4. "Last"
  5. "Fever Pitch"
  6. "Death Verses"
  7. "Towered"
  8. "Gravity Bent Light"
  9. "Monumental"

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References

  1. Vessel States at Metacritic OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. Vessel States at AllMusic
  3. "Wilderness: Vessel States: Pitchfork Record Review". www.pitchforkmedia.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2022.