Track Listing

1. Pretty Lush
2. Siberian Kiss
3. When Eight Becomes Two Zeroes
4. Ry Ry's Song
5. Lovebites and Razorlines
6. Hurting And Shoving (She Should Have Let Me Sleep)
7. Majour
8. Her Middle Name Was Boom
9. Piano
10. Babe
11. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence
12. Motel Of The White Locust

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14504 in Music
• Released on: 2000-05-08
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
For some people big is never going to be big enough. Take Long Island's Glassjaw, a band whose inherent artistic vision both coalesces and encompasses a multitude of musical precedents from a wide variety of divergent genres. The end result of this feverish mixing and matching--of factors whose only common gene is their profound grandiosity--is that Glassjaw may well be lazily compartmentalised as a metal act primarily for their overwhelming embrace of the bombastic, yet they're undeniably worth a whole lot more. For they're freshening up rock's formulaic status quo with a similar grab bag of priceless acquired stylings to Faith No More in their "Epic" glory days. Specifically, Glassjaw ally the precocious new wave cleverness of XTC and Elvis Costello, to the blazing fury of Bad Brains, and top the entire potent cocktail with a fundamentally awesome Ross "Slipknot" Robinson production job. The result is colossal.--Ian Fortnam

CD Description
Aside from their lack of long hair, large shorts or spandex, Glassjaw could never be your typical metal band thanks to the distinctive vocals of singer Daryl Palumbo. On their debut album he swoops from roar to falsetto in the blink of a verse. EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SILENCE is a startling debut release from such a young band. Despite being signed to Roadrunner, Glassjaw tread a path more hardcore than metal.
They exhibit a gift for welding fantastic melodic passages with crushingly heavy bursts of musical angst such as on the intense "When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros" orthe almost poppy "Ry Ry's Song". The unique vocals are moreakin to Jeff Buckley or Radiohead rather than Korn or Limp Bizkit. EYEWTKAS is a personal album dripping with anger andself-loathing. Difficult to categorise and impossible to provide comparisons, it is all the stronger for its individuality. This is a refreshing and challenging release that should mark the start of great things for Glassjaw.

Customer Reviews

Heavy, addictive, uplifting. This is a classic.
This album takes the best elements from hardcore, nu-metal and emocore and the combination is some of the most aggressive yet uplifting music you will ever hear. This album takes a couple of listens to 'get into', as the anger and hate makes some of the most extreme music around, but perseverance pays off as this is a highly addictive album. 'Pretty Lush' and 'Ry Ry's Song' are the most accessible tracks present, but Glassjaw don't do hit singles and the real highlights reveal themselves after a couple of listens. 'Siberian Kiss', 'Piano', 'Hurting and Shoving' and 'Lovebites and Razorlines' are personal favourites, which mix some of the heaviest abrasive hardcore with sublime and tender melodies. Lyric wise, this album deals with vocalist Daryl Palumbo's troubled love life, and is highly recommended to anyone going through similar relationship problems or anyone who has had their heart broken (basically all of us). Unmissable.

"...welcome to hollywood..."
If you take the metal-core stylings of Vision Of Disorder and mix with the beauty and melody of Far, add a dash of the Deftones and a pinch of Quicksand you will be nearing the thrill-ride that is Glassjaw's debut album. Considerably more intense than they're earlier work, EYEWTKAS is the work of a band that are destined for classic status. Musically the album takes you from violent thrashings to introspective murmur, while lyrically frontman Daryl Palumbo would put many a poet to shame with his intensely personal reflections. But, rather than being downbeat and lurid the band have created 50 minutes of the most life-affirming music I have ever heard. If the least you have is only a passing interest in fresh and exciting talent then this is more than vital. While anyone with more than a passing interest should already have this masterpiece. Buy it yesterday.

Amazing
This album is a 100%, bona fide classic. The main thing that hits you right from the crazy discordant opening of "Pretty Lush" is the sheer amount of emotion that these guys put into their music. Frontman and lyricist Daryl Palumbo is startlingly honest and it feels like you can feel his soul bleeding through the speakers each time you listen to songs like "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence" (about Crohn's disease) and the brilliant "Motel Of The White Locust". The interplay between the guitarists Justin Beck and Todd Weinstock is also fresh sounding, managing to add to the songs whilst remaining completely interesting musically as single entities. The production, by Ross Robinson, who is perhaps best known for producing the debut Korn album, also reflects the mood of the music - ragged and raw, at times grating like gravel in a fresh wound. It must be said that this album IS NOT an easy listen, by any stretch of the imagination, but it IS a VITAL one. In a world where music is ruled by plastic rock and pop acts with fake angst and no soul, we need bands like Glassjaw even more.

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