Trainwreck

by Boys Night Out

Trainwreck cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 26 July 2005
  • Label: Ferret Music
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 52:25
  • Community rating: 3.47/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Constructed as an ambitious narrative concept album, 'Trainwreck' explores harrowing themes of murder, psychosis, and hospitalization through a surprisingly upbeat emo-pop lens. The band contrasts immensely dark lyrical matter with heavily melodic pop-punk and energetic post-hardcore structures. It is widely considered a creative pinnacle within the 2000s alternative scene for its disturbing yet infectious storytelling.

Genres

Descriptors: Conceptual, conceptual, death, melodic, drugs, crime

Tracklist

  1. Introducing (3:37)
  2. Dreaming (4:52)
  3. Waking (3:36)
  4. Sentencing (3:28)
  5. Medicating (4:00)
  6. Purging (3:39)
  7. Relapsing (4:55)
  8. Recovering (4:07)
  9. Composing (5:49)
  10. Disintegrating (4:14)
  11. Healing (3:24)
  12. Dying (6:40)

Credits

  • Boys Night Out - primary artist, songwriter [all songs], performer [performed by]
  • Brian Southall - band [boys night out], vocals [group vocals]
  • Connor Lovat-Fraser - band [boys night out]
  • Dave Costa - band [boys night out]
  • Jeff Davis - band [boys night out], vocals [group vocals]
  • Kara Dupuy - band [boys night out], vocals [group vocals]
  • Dan Nigro - guest, vocals
  • Ken Greenberg - narrator [spoken word]
  • Jakob Nyg氓rd - engineer [drums], engineer [guitars and vocals]
  • Robert Harari - engineer [group vocals]
  • Gordon Ball - photography by

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