Released 16 July 2013 Connect
(2013) Fury
(2016) Release date 16 July 2013 | Length 44:10 Artist Sick Puppies Label Capitol Records | |
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Producer Rock Mafia (Tim James, Antonina Armato) Genres Hard rock, Alternative rock, Alternative metal, Post-grunge Similar Dressed Up as Life, Tri‑Polar, Fury | ||
Connect is the fourth studio album by Australian band Sick Puppies, and was released on 16 July 2013 by Capitol Records. This was the last album to feature Lead vocalist and guitarist Shimon Moore, who was kicked out of the band on 20 October 2014.
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The album debuted at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 album chart, their highest charting position to date, with 18,195 copies sold. Connect sold 16,318 albums in its first week.
A preview of the first single "There's No Going Back" was released on YouTube on 10 May 2013. The single was released on 20 May 2013.
Sick puppies under a very black sky audio
Music
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic highlighted that "the trio's fourth album, are varied and its themes are ambitious, tackling disconnect and politics", but it "doesn't mean the Australian trio necessarily sounds adult, however."
Critical reception
Connect garnered generally mixed reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called the album "a richer musical experience than the group's previous records", but wrote that the band was "still hampered a bit by their desperate desire to be taken seriously, but the back half of Connect, written largely on acoustic guitars, shows that their strength is not in attitude but rather in softer sonic textures." At Alternative Press, Reed Fischer felt that "Connect grates far too often to live up to its name."
Songs
1Die to Save You3:53
2There's No Going Back3:22
3Walking Away3:01