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Noun
versions- Plural of version
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Extensive Definition
Versions is Poison the
Well's fourth studio album. It was released on April 2, 2007 in Europe and
April 3,
2007 World
Wide via Ferret
Music. Versions is the first release for Poison the Well on
Ferret
Music and is also the band's first release since 2003's
You Come Before You (Atlantic Records), which has sold over
130,000 copies in the U.S. to date.
The trio of Ryan Primack (guitar), Chris
Hornbrook (drums) and Jeffrey Moreira (vocals) wrote the album over
the past few years. Primack describes the material as having many
more colors and nuances than previous work. "The songs are pretty
open-ended and there's a lot of unique instrumentation in the
background throughout such as mandolins, slide guitar, horns and
banjo," he says.
Primack, who plays all of the more unusual
instruments on the disc, adds, "This is not out of the blue. We
actually started to add these elements to the last album but we
didn't have time to flesh them out like with 'Versions'. It's going
to be a really different sounding album in hardcore, well as
different as you can be in hardcore nowadays."
Track listing
- "Letter Thing" - 2:28
- "Breathing's For The Birds" - 3:41
- "Nagaina" - 4:10
- "The Notches That Create Your Headboard" - 2:30
- "Pleading Post" - 3:36
- "Slow Good Morning" - 5:05
- "Prematurito El Baby" - 2:53
- "Composer Meet Corpse" - 2:30
- "You Will Not Be Welcomed" - 4:46
- "Naive Monarch" - 2:24
- "Riverside" - 3:02
- "The First Day Of My Second Life" - 4:53
"Wreck Itself Taking You With Me" – 3:21
(European bonus track) "Oceanbreast" 4:17 – (Japanese bonus
track)
Singles
To coincide with a string of headlining dates, and in support of Versions, Poison the Well released the album's opening track "Letter Thing" as a digital-only single on March 13th. The single is available via iTunes and all other download platforms. A video has also been released for "Letter Thing", directed by Roboshobo (The Blood Brothers, Mates of State). The video features stop motion animation figures which speak in subtitled norse runes throughout the video, saying the following: "The hour grows near; The weak flesh shall be tempered by fire; Face what is yours; With this ring, I thee wed"Credits
- Jeffrey Moreira (Vocals)
- Ryan Primack (Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Banjo, Synthesizer, Wurlitzer Piano and Backing Vocals)
- Chris A Hornbrook (Drums and Percussion)
- Jason Boyer (Guitar on tracks 4,6,9,11 and 12)
- Pelle Henricsson (Percussion, Synthesizer, Wurlitzer Piano, second snare drum and noise on all tracks)
- Eskil Lövström (Muu Guitar, Trumpet, and Trombone on tracks 5,8 and 11)
- Bradley Grace (Live Bass)
- Bradley Clifford (Live Guitar)