One truly has to feel for And You will know Us by the Trail of Dead.
When you start off (around 1995), everyone loves you, you don't have that many fans, but the ones you have adore you. You're known for your incendiary (i.e. they often destroyed their instruments at the end of shows) live shows, and make a few incredible albums, culminating in (major label) Source Tags & Codes, famously awarded a 10 by Pitchfork.
And in truth, what the hell do you do after that?
Quit?
Blow it all on coke and strippers?
Play one final show in which you not only destroy your instruments, but burn and snort their ashes?
But instead of succumbing to inane rock clichés (and perhaps the easy way out), the Trail of Dead continued, forced to come down from their high pretty fast with their (significantly) less well received follow-up albums. That same Pitchfork now gives you a 5.5 and a 4, for So Divided and Worlds Apart respectively, and suddenly you've become Weezer. Your sound is now described as 'overblown', 'bloated', and you've apparently entered 'November Rain' territory.
So they started their own label, did some other stuff on the side and made another album (on their own label this time). Said album will probably be released towards the end of the year, but they just released a taster in the form of the Festival Thyme e.p.
So they started their own label, did some other stuff on the side and made another album (on their own label this time). Said album will probably be released towards the end of the year, but they just released a taster in the form of the Festival Thyme e.p.
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