Welcome (Taproot album)
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October 15, 2002 |
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| Label (s) | Atlantic / Velvet Hammer | |||
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
46:44 |
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Toby Wright |
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Welcome is Taproot's second album . It was released in the United States on October 15, 2002 and debuted at number 17 on the Billboard charts. In Germany, the publication followed on November 18 of the same year. With around 450,000 sales in the US alone, it is Taproot's most commercially successful album.
Track list
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Chart positions Explanation of the data |
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- Mine - 3:49
- Poem - 3:09
- Everything - 3:27
- Art - 4:42
- Myself - 3:47
- When - 4:04
- Fault - 3:19
- Sumtimes - 4:29
- Breathe - 4:17
- Like - 4:38
- Dreams - 3:43
- Time - 3:20
Single releases
- 2002: Poem
- 2003: mine
reception
Andreas Himmelstein from Rock Hard certified Taproot - who, according to him, had already stood out from the nu-metal monotony with their debut and previous album Gift - in his review, “that the subject of dynamics is far from exhausted if you can present good songs to them this stylistic device does justice. On 'Welcome', too, the aggressive outbursts of emotion direct the focus to beautiful melodies, harmonious singing and just those good song ideas and do not serve to cover up a general lack of ideas and concepts, as is unfortunately far too often with most other bands in this genre occurs. For him, Taproot provide proof that you can set trends with hard work and good ideas, even in a market that has long been saturated and flooded. ”He awarded 8.5 out of 10 points.
For the music magazine VISIONS, Taproot would not live up to the high expectations with their second record. In its review, it stated that the aggressive-progressive approaches of the predecessor would increasingly fall victim to “songwriting fits”: “In 2002 there was a lot of singing, most of the time people only shouted on the second vocal track. In principle, such a development is okay, but the problem is that Taproot's songwriting potential is only average and singer Stephen Richards does not have the necessary charisma for this kind of music. ”The album got a rather average rating with 7 out of 12 points.