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Purple (Baroness album)

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Released
  
December 18, 2015

Length
  
42:33

Artist
  
Baroness

Producer
  
Recorded
  
Winter 2015

Label
  
Abraxan Hymns

Release date
  
18 December 2015

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Studio
  
Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York

Genres
  
Sludge metal, Alternative metal

Nominations
  
Kerrang! Award for Best Album

Similar
  
Baroness albums, Sludge metal albums, Other albums

Baroness purple 2015 full album


Purple is the fourth studio album by sludge metal band Baroness. It was released 18 December 2015 through the band's newly founded label Abraxan Hymns. It is the first album to be released by the band following their involvement in the 2012 bus accident that left nine people injured; it is also the first album to feature new band members Nick Jost and Sebastian Thompson, playing bass/keyboards and drums respectively. The first single from the album, "Chlorine & Wine", was released on 28 August 2015. The second single from the album, "Shock Me," was released on 15 November 2015 and it reached #30 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US. The album was included at number 23 on Rock Sound's top 50 releases of 2015 list and at number 7 on Rolling Stone's Best Metal Albums of 2015 list.

Contents

Baroness purple full album


Critical reception

Purple was met with critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic (a review aggregator site which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 from music critics), based on 19 critics, the album has received a score of 85/100, which indicates "universal acclaim".

In Dom Lawson's review of the album for The Guardian, he described the album as "far more focused and fiery beast; both a return to the stormy riffing and skewed melodies of old and a subtle but unmistakable lunge for mainstream glory. It's a balance they pull off brilliantly." Pitchfork's Brandon Stosuy was likewise praising of the album, writing that "These are some of the biggest, strongest songs that Baroness has written; it's rock music that folds in their more metal leanings, along with something more delicate and spare. The hooks and melodies are their best."

Personnel

  • Pete Adams – electric guitar, acoustic guitar backing vocals
  • John Dyer Baizley – lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lyrics, bells, glockenspiel, Wurlitzer electric piano
  • Nick Jost – bass guitar, double bass, piano, synthesizers
  • Sebastian Thomson – drums
  • Songs

    1Morningstar4:17
    2Shock Me4:17
    3Try to Disappear4:53

    References

    Purple (Baroness album) Wikipedia


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