You Will Never Know Why

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You Will Never Know Why
SweetTripYouWillNeverKnowWhy.jpg
Studio album by
Sweet Trip
ReleasedSeptember 28, 2009 (2009-09-28)
Genre Indie pop [1]
Length56:20
Label Darla
Producer Sweet Trip
Sweet Trip chronology
Velocity : Design : Comfort
(2003)		You Will Never Know Why
(2009)		 A Tiny House, In Secret Speeches, Polar Equals
(2021)
Alternative cover
You Will Never Know Why Sweet Trip 2021 Reissue.jpg
2021 remaster
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
PopMatters 7/10 [2]

You Will Never Know Why is the third album by American experimental pop act Sweet Trip, released on September 28, 2009, by Darla Records. [3] It marks a departure from the electronic sounds of their previous releases, featuring more traditional song structures and a more mainstream indie pop sound throughout.

Contents

Background

After the release of their second album, Velocity : Design : Comfort , Sweet Trip took a nearly three-year hiatus from performing and recording, lasting from 2004 to 2006. [4] Roberto Burgos used this hiatus to improve his guitar playing, so that future recordings of songs would not need to rely so heavily on effects to hit the notes and chords he was aiming to play. [5] In 2006, the band reformed, with founding member Viet Le leaving and Rob Uytingco joining to contribute live drums to performances and recordings. [4]

Songs for the album developed from practice sessions where the band would play with just guitar alone, with them deciding that the more "raw and bare and simple" songs would be what they would focus on for their next album; the band agreed an attempt to recreate the sound of Velocity : Design : Comfort in particular would be a disservice to that album. [5] The band also focused on making more traditional verse-chorus structured songs, whereas previous releases had the band building songs as they went, leading to long and unconventionally structured songs. [6]

Burgos and Valerie Cooper have gone on record stating some of the songs had been in the works for many years prior to the album's release, with the song "Air Supply" written around the same time as "Dsco" from Velocity : Design : Comfort, which itself debuted live in 1999, four years prior to that album's release. [7] Also written years earlier were the songs "Milk" and the intro and outro for "Acting", both of which were created around the same time as Velocity : Design : Comfort. [7] [8] The song "Silence", a bonus track from the 2021 remaster, was performed solo by Cooper at the 1999 wedding of the eponymous Darla of Darla Records; [9] the owner of March Records, who was in attendance, told her that the band should write more songs like that, and that "it's better, people will like that better". [10]

Artwork

The original cover artwork for You Will Never Know Why features a razor blade, drawn by Aaron Porter. Burgos and Cooper were not sure what to do for the artwork, and eventually Porter drew the razor after much indecision, which the band went with for the final cover. [11] Burgos has stated neither he nor Cooper were fans of the original artwork, nor the association with the razor and self-harm, [12] so the band chose to create entirely new artwork alongside a short comic for the 2021 remaster. [13]

The remaster's artwork features drawings of Burgos and Cooper lying around a portrait of a vampire, from the comic included in physical editions of the album. [14] This artwork was met with criticism from fans, [15] leading to Darla Records repressing versions of the remaster with the original razor artwork. [3]

2021 Remaster Comic

Physical editions of the 2021 remaster of You Will Never Know Why come with a short comic, with the story written by Cooper and artwork done by YobKiss. [16] [17] It follows an unnamed vampire, who sees an in-comic counterpart of Cooper writing her suicide note, about to kill herself with a razor with her name on it (based off the design of the razor on the original cover art). The vampire then flies through Cooper's window, biting her and turning her into a vampire, then taking her razor. He then places the razor in a case also containing a razor with Burgos's name on it, implying the same had happened to him too. The comic ends with Burgos and Cooper happily dancing together, both now vampires. [14]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sweet Trip (Roberto Burgos and Valerie Cooper)

No.TitleLength
1."Conservation of Two"2:37
2."Air Supply"4:30
3."Forever"3:59
4."Acting"7:05
5."Milk"4:25
6."Darkness"6:27
7."To the Moon"4:10
8."Song About a Sea"1:17
9."Song About a Sun"1:43
10."No Words to Be Found"2:42
11."Pretending"4:43
12."Misfortunes Are Cruel"4:16
13."Your World Is Eternally Complete"4:22
14."Female Lover" (unlisted on original CD edition)4:04
Total length:56:20
2021 remaster bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
15."Silence"1:56
16."Where the Sunrise Dies, So Does the Echo of Your Voice"5:34
17."Things to Ponder While Falling"4:07
Total length:67:57

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [18]

Sweet Trip

Production

Additional personnel

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  2. ↑ Newmark, M. R. (October 22, 2009). "Sweet Trip: You Will Never Know Why". PopMatters . Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Sweet Trip – You Will Never Know Why". Darla Records. Archived from the original on January 29, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
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  5. 1 2 "AN INTERVIEW WITH SWEET TRIP". MELTED. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  6. ↑ "A Deep Dive With Sweet Trip". KTSW 89.9. 2020-04-19. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  7. 1 2 "Sweet Trip Setlist at SXSW 1999". setlist.fm. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  8. ↑ Sweet Trip – Acting , retrieved 2022-04-02
  9. ↑ Sweet Trip- Silence (2m) Live @ Darla's Wedding 09/26/1999 , retrieved 2022-04-02
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  11. ↑ "At Last a Truth That Is Real: Sweet Trip's Roby Burgos on the Band's Journey and Their New Album". Two Story Melody. 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  12. ↑ @burgosnavas (August 14, 2020). "@noseblush Exactly. That is actually one of, if not the core reason for the change" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  13. ↑ @burgosnavas (August 14, 2020). "We had many reasons to go in a different direction with the YWNKW artwork, and we believed in them 100%. At the same time we were aware that we would meet reactions of all kinds once this project was out" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  14. 1 2 Sweet Trip - You Will Never Know Why , retrieved 2022-04-02
  15. ↑ Burgos, Roberto [@burgosnavas] (August 14, 2020). ""Got a whiff of some negative (and violent) feedback about the new artwork, so I thought I address the concerns. While we didn't exactly realized the original artwork was "iconic" as many mentioned, we acknowledged that it was at least a well known part of the package."" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  16. ↑ @burgosnavas (January 22, 2021). "This reissue has been remastered, includes 3 bonus tracks, Things To Ponder While Falling being one of them, and a pretty neat, short comic book, story by Valerie. You can start streaming now, or by 12am local time" (Tweet). Retrieved 2020-08-14– via Twitter.
  17. ↑ @burgosnavas (May 22, 2021). "Our man @YobKiss is on at the IFM 2021 Dream Machine right now. He is the mastermind behind the #ywnkw comic. Check it out!!!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  18. ↑ You Will Never Know Why (liner notes). Sweet Trip. Darla Records. 2009. DRL222-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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