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- Date Released: July 18, 2006
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Textbook Music / INgrooves
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The second solo album by former Prayer for Cleansing member Will Goodyear, now using the moniker William, Surface the Vessel is a generally agreeable example of the poppier side of emo, failed by a peculiarly awful production job. The songs are too low-key and anguished to be considered truly poppy, but William's a clever songwriter with a keen sense of dynamics. There's a lot of open space in these arrangements, but William subverts the usual quiet-quiet-loud indie rock trick by preferring not to load up on decibels, but on tracks. As a result, when the skeletal verses in "Moderate" suddenly explode into a full-band chorus, there are suddenly harmony vocals, hand percussion and rhythm guitars on top of the expected big distorted lead guitar riffs, turning a fairly standard emo tune into a compelling pop song. The problem lies in William's production and mixing, which are both unnecessarily lo-fi and squashed, making the album sound dull and lifeless even on its best songs and forcing a boring uniformity of sound onto what should be a varied and engaging set of songs. Listen past the production and Surface the Vessel shows much promise, but at times, that can be hard to do.
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Life Apart |
4:18 |
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| 02. | |
True to Form |
3:50 |
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| 03. | |
Magazines |
2:58 |
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| 04. | |
Puppet Song |
3:57 |
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| 05. | |
On Borrowed Time |
3:59 |
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| 06. | |
Moderate |
3:44 |
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| 07. | |
Repeating |
3:44 |
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| 08. | |
Portrait Soul |
3:04 |
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| 09. | |
Grohg |
3:55 |
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| 10. | |
Afterthought |
3:40 |
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| 11. | |
Miracle Waiting |
4:42 |
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11 Total Tracks, 41:51 Total Length
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Credits
- Dave A. Harris - Mastering // Patrick Atkinson - Artwork // Mitchell Marlow - Musician // Alberto Jacob - Engineer // Will Goodyear - Producer // Paul Andrew Waggoner - Musician // Tommy Rogers - Musician
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