To Walk a Middle Course

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To Walk a Middle Course
Studio album by Kylesa

Publication
(s)

March 22, 2005

admission

October 2004

Label (s) Prosthetic Records

Genre (s)

Sludge

Title (number)

10

occupation
  • Phillip Cope: guitar, vocals samples
  • Corey Barhorst: bass , vocals, samples

production

Alex Newport

Studio (s)

Hot Head Recording, Los Angeles

chronology
Kylesa
(2002) 		To Walk a Middle Course Time Will Fuse Its Worth
(2006)

To Walk a Middle Course is the second studio album by the American sludge band Kylesa .

Emergence

The titles of the album were written jointly by the band in extensive jam sessions , they met almost every day to rehearse for a period of about half a year. The lyrics are by Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasant. The album was produced by Alex Newport , one of the founders of Fudge Tunnel , and it was the first time the band had worked with a professional producer. The recordings took place in Los Angeles in October 2004 and the band was pleased with the result, which sounded better than anything they had recorded before.

Track list

  1. In memory - 4:29
  2. Fractured - 2:43
  3. Train of Thought - 3:29
  4. Motion and Presence - 4:26
  5. Welcome Mat to an Abandoned Life - 3:38
  6. Bottom Line - 2:48
  7. Eyes Closed From Birth - 3:56
  8. Shatter the Clock - 4:46
  9. Phantoms - 6:15
  10. Crashing Slow - 3:35

reception

Even before the album was released, the American music magazine Spin led the band as "the next big thing" and highlighted the diversity of musical influences from Black Flag to Black Sabbath . The reviews of the album were accordingly positive. Oliver Fröhlich from Ox Fanzine described the To Walk a Middle Course as a “real highlight”, the music, which is mainly in the middle tempo range, literally blows you over and especially Laura Pleasant's singing is “a force”. Stylistically, he still sees Kylesa as a punk band, but with influences from crust , metal and psychedelic . Alex Henderson from Allmusic has a hard time classifying music in a certain genre and chooses alternative metal as a general term . He particularly emphasizes the alternation between loud, dissonant and quiet, atmospheric passages, but says that the album seems indecisive in places.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karma E. Omowale: Interview with Kylesa. FourteenG Webzine, February 10, 2005, archived from the original on March 12, 2012 ; accessed on January 8, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fourteeng.net
  2. ↑ A Metal Moment. Wake Mag, April 5, 2005; archived from the original on October 7, 2008 ; accessed on January 8, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Joe Gross: The Next Big Things: Kylesa . In: Spin . February 2005, p. 74 .
  4. ↑ Oliver Fröhlich: Kylesa - To Walk a Middle Course. Ox Fanzine # 62, 2005, accessed January 8, 2011 .

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