Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence by Glassjaw (CD, May-2000, Roadrunner Records)

Album Features
UPC:	016861857820
Artist:	Glassjaw
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2000
Record Label:	Roadrunner Records
Genre:	Heavy Metal

Track Listing
1. Pretty Lush
2. Siberian Kiss
3. When One Eight Becomes Two Zeros
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

Details
Playing Time:	52 min.
Producer:	Ross Robinson
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Glassjaw: Daryl Palumbo (vocals); Beck, Todd N. Weinstock (guitar); Manuel Ragoonanan Carrero (bass); Sammy Siegler (drums).Recorded at Indigo Ranch, Malibu, California.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" or the almost poppy "Ry Ry's Song." The unique vocals are more akin to Jeff Buckley or Radiohead rather than Korn or Limp Bizkit. EYEWTKAS is a personal album dripping with anger and self-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.

Editorial Reviews
8 out of 10 - ...the sound of horrible realisations slowly dawning....This is rock'n'roll from the f'd-up schoolyards of America.
NME

4.5 stars out of 5 - ...A treatise on the nature of love and relationships in the 21st century...As musically visceral as you could wish for and boasting a depth most nu-metal bands would drown in....perfectly encapsualtes the unbearable heaviness of being...
Melody Maker (20000606)

...Blisteringly loud emocore...based on shifting dynamics (think Deftones) delivered by twin guitars and the unstoppable drumming of Sammy Seigler...
CMJ (20000424)

Included in CMJ's Best Loud Rock Albums of 2000.
CMJ (20010108)