The Gift

by Bullet LaVolta

The Gift cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 20 May 1989
  • Label: Taang!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 58:56
  • Community rating: 3.37/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Bill Whelan, Ken Chambers, Chris Guttmacher, Yukki Gipe, Clay Tarver, Paul Q. Kolderie

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Emerging from the Boston college scene, the energetic sextet merges frantic hardcore punk with heavy, stadium-sized guitar riffs. 'The Gift' heavily anticipates the impending alternative rock boom, effortlessly straddling the line between underground grit and hard rock accessibility.

Genres

Descriptors: dissonant, dynamic, distorted, melodic, loud

Tracklist

  1. X-Fire (3:22)
  2. Little Tiny Pieces (3:45)
  3. Mother Messiah (3:17)
  4. Chalkdust (2:44)
  5. Sneer (Blind To You) (5:20)
  6. Off Kilter (2:30)
  7. Underground Well (2:51)
  8. The Gift (3:55)
  9. One Room Down (3:52)
  10. Birth Of Death (4:11)
  11. Trapdoor (4:17)
  12. Baggage (3:22)
  13. Circuits (2:58)
  14. Autopilot (3:11)
  15. Dead Wrong (3:51)
  16. Because You're Mine (1:55)
  17. Over The Shoulder (3:28)

Credits

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