Versions (Poison the Well album)

Infobox Album | Name = Versions
Type = studio
Artist = Poison the Well


Released = April 2 2007 (UK, Europe)
April 3 2007 (U.S.)
Recorded = Tonteknik Recording Studios, Umeå, Sweden
Genre = Post-hardcore
Experimental music

Length =
Producer = Eskil Lövström, Pelle Henricsson
Label = Ferret Music
Reviews =
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* "Rock Midgets.com" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rockmidgets.com/releases.php?&id=1900 link]
* "Lambgoat.com" Rating|2|5 [http://www.lambgoat.com/albums/view.aspx?id=2383 link]
* "Revolver Magazine" Rating|4|5
* "Alternative Press" Rating|4.5|5
* "Decibel Magazine" rating-10|7
* "Rock Sound Magazine" rating-10|7
* "Spin Magazine" Rating|4|5
* "Kerrang! Magazine" Rating|5|5
* "Mammoth Music Press" rating-10|9
* "Rock Zone Magazine" rating-10|9 [http://www.mammothpress.com/index.php?area=readreview&pid=1054 link]
* Metal Hammer rating-10|7
Last album = "You Come Before You"
(2003)
This album = "Versions"
(2007)
Next album =

"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".

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" - 4:53Bonus Tracks:

13. "Wreck Itself Taking You With Me" – 3:21 (European bonus track)
14. "Oceanbreast" 4:17 – (Japanese bonus track)

ingles

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 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)

External links

* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=4385025 Official MySpace Page]
* [http://www.ferretstyle.com Ferret Music]