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Welcome by: Taproot List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £9.98 You Save: £6.01 (38%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0766481908524 Label: Atlantic Manufacturer: Atlantic Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Atlantic Release Date: September 30, 2002 Studio: Atlantic Sales Rank: 82742 MPN: 83561 Disc 1: Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Welcome, the second album from Michigan-based nu-metal foursome Taproot, is an urgent attempt to inject some subtlety into the increasingly generic American rock design. It's a good idea: flirting with dance rhythms, planning out grand orchestral backings to counteract those passages of bleak instrumental heaviness, it sounds like Taproot might just have the visionary attitude necessary to drag nu-metal out of its current malaise. Where Welcome actually works, Tool's Lateralus is an apposite comparison point: "Myself" is a brash three minutes of Tom Morello-style riffage with a staccato chorus that lodges itself in your head and refuses to let go, while the affecting "Art" buries its theme of destruction-breeds-creation in warm violin sweeps and swooping three-part harmonies. Unfortunately, too often, good ideas go awry at the execution stage. The flurry of live breakbeats that kicks off "Mine" sounds more of a production feat than an artistic one, and besides, it ultimately only amounts to the "quiet" bit of the hackneyed quiet-loud-quiet formula anyway. Meanwhile, the one-dimensional guitar crunch that characterises so much nu-metal seems to be a tedious fixture. Taproot might be visionaries, but on Welcome, their gaze is fixed too close to home. --Louis Pattison Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - By no means a bad album but...It is no where near what taproot are about. This album is a great album and if you like 'gift' you will love this album too, but in comparisson to 'gift' and also their latest 'blue sky research' it is a little off the mark. Still, greta tunes like 'poem' and 'mine' make this an album worth owning. Crushing guitar riffs and melodic singing, this is truely a transition in styles for taproot, and therfore the songs are not as fluid as those on their other albums. If this was their debut it would be great, but we know what they are capable of! Good job they delivered with 'Blue sky research'. Support this band so buy this CD! Rating:  - Don't Believe The Hypeshocking. yet another band that promised so much with their debut has been given too much time in the studio and too much free rein with their imagination. there is no consistency, and nothing sounds natural. everything here is too complicated and over-produced, and the vocals especially sound synthetic and soulless - in fact they sound so like Layne Staley (late Alice in Chains singer) you have to wonder how much time and effort went in to achieving this effect and whether it might have been a better idea if Taproot and put this much time in to creating a coherent and impassioned record instead of this anaemic wet fish. avoid Rating: - The Little Brothers Of Heavy MetalMusic is like family; some of it you get on with, some of it makes you happy, some of it you despise, but in the end it's all of a common bond of that it's all been created and is closely knit, no matter whether you're listening to Backstreet Boys or Tool...And if heavy metal had a family it'd look a little something like this: Black Sabbath would be the much looked up to father, married for such a long time to the beautiful Led Zeppelin, while their first born, oldest son would be Alice In Chains, who'll pick on his little brother, known as Taproot. There does seem to be a lot of justification in this, as it shows the quality of music throughout generations. Sabbath's immortality has already long been recognised, as is Zeppelin's, whereas despite ... Read More: Rating:  - Let's ROCK!I would just like to say that this CD will fit very nicely into any rock/metal fans collection. How come no-one in these reveiws has mentioned the incredible likeness to Alice In Chains and especially the singers voice compared to Layne Staley? It sounds just like him! That's the reason I got this CD! PURCHASE NOW! Rating: - Good but should have been better.I knew after purchasing Taproots debut album 'Gift' and seeing them live in 2001 that Taproot was not just another extremely poor and bland Nu-metal band that we seem to be subjected to constantly now-a-days. They were actually pretty damn good. Id give there debut a full 5 out of 5. The first album was all out energy, very heavy and melodic, a real good album to get you in a good mood. With this album they seem to be melowing out a little bit, although it is still a very hard album, as you can tell pretty much strait away from the first track. I cant help but find some of the songs a little bit depressing compared to the first album. Some of the songs are still quite beautiful for such a heavy band. The major problem i have with it is the ... Read More: |
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