Description
Absolutes is the sophomore full-length album by the American alternative rock band Stavesacre, released on Tooth & Nail Records in 1997. The album was produced by Bryan Carlstrom and the band.
Stavesacre is one of those bands I can’t listen to very often. They’re just too mesmerizing, putting me in a hypnotic trance of pure pleasure, so that I literally can’t turn them off. When I originally heard their first album, Friction, I didn’t care too much for it. As I gave it a few more spins, however, I was pulled in deeper and deeper, realizing that Stavesacre isn’t music meant to be listened to casually. I’m still hearing new things from it every time. It stirs my emotions. And now I’ve got to deal with Absolutes! I wouldn’t say there’s much new ground broken here, just more of the same – the same progressive heavy alterna-metal (a la Tool, Only Living Witness) combined with Mark Salomon’s passion-drenched vocals (with a little more variety perhaps); and a fully textured mesh of massive rhythms and raging guitars pulled taut around a sometimes seething, sometimes serene, explosion of emotion! This is inspiring music and inspiring art, with lyrics you’d want to study and decipher so they can cut to your heart (if you can find the hidden lyric sheet). It’s going to take me a while to absorb the personality of each song so I won’t attempt any specifics here (But I love that military drumroll near the end of «Wither/Ascend». And the acoustic track – let’s have more of that on the next one!). Just go buy the album and be mesmerized along with me. Yeah, boy. [Josh Spencer, The Phantom Tollbooth, 1997]
> iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/absolutes/724433158)
CD tracklist:
01. Shiv – 2:56
02. Sand Dollar – 3:07
03. Colt .45 – 5:45
04. Inclusive – 3:45
05. Wither/Ascend – 6:19
06. Acquiesce – 4:06
07. An Eclipsing – 2:59
08. The Two Heavens – 6:13
09. Wither (Reprise) – 2:35
10. Zzyzx Scarecrow – 6:06
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Tooth & Nail Records.
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