- Audio CD (30 Sep 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Atlantic
- ASIN: B000069KI1
- Other Editions: Audio CD | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 58,894 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Mine |
| 2. Poem |
| 3. Everything |
| 4. Art |
| 5. Myself |
| 6. When |
| 7. Fault |
| 8. Sumtimes |
| 9. Breathe |
| 10. Like |
| 11. Dreams |
| 12. Time |
Product Description
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
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
with the release of their first independent album and the follow up Gift we'd thought we had seen what taproot was all about. Blisteriing melodies choked by mind blowing distored riffs, and all brought together by stephen richards rap metal style vocals. But this album is a gem, when first hearing it you can automatically hear the growth not just in the vocals but in the bands sound as well. This album leaves all nu metal behind and makes limp bizkit who were responsible for the initial taproot success seem like a support act. this is a must buy and has been well worth the wait.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
shocking.
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
Format:Audio CD
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!
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!
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