The Egg

by Shiner

The Egg cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 October 2001
  • Label: DeSoto
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 49:06
  • Community rating: 3.91/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the Kansas City quartet's final album before a long hiatus, 'The Egg' is an incredibly dense, muscular display of post-hardcore mastery. The record flawlessly intertwines crushing, technically complex math-rock riffing with soaring, deeply melancholic, and remarkably melodic alternative rock choruses.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, uncommon-time-signatures, dissonant, polyrhythmic, riff-heavy, distorted, rhythmic, atmospheric, spacious

Tracklist

  1. The Truth About Cows (3:21)
  2. Surgery (3:23)
  3. Play Dead (3:30)
  4. The Top of the World (4:11)
  5. The Egg (5:42)
  6. Andalusia (3:56)
  7. Bells and Whistles (4:12)
  8. The Simple Truth (7:57)
  9. Spook the Herd (2:29)
  10. Pills (4:53)
  11. Stoned (5:27)

Credits

  • Matt Talbott - keyboards [keys]
  • Allen Epley - performer, written-by, lyrics by
  • Jason Gerken - performer
  • Josh Newton - performer, written-by

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