Title: Source Tags And Codes
Artist: And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Label: Interscope Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 602557656398
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2017-08-11
Number of Discs: 2

Double vinyl LP pressing includes three bonus tracks plus an etching on Side D/4. Source Tags & Codes is the third album (and first for Interscope) from the alt-rock band,… And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. It is often cited as the band’s finest work, yielding a sound texture that teeters on implosion and seeing the band yank the melody back at the last second. Source Tags & Codes was met with critical acclaim, receiving a score of 85 out of 100 on review aggregate site Metacritic, indicating “universal acclaim”. The Austin Chronicle’s Michael Chamy called Source Tags & Codes “an album that absolutely cannot be ignored”. Noel Murray of The A.V. Club wrote that the band “plays imaginative alt-rock with intense passion, and Source Tags & Codes let’s the pressure build exquisitely.” Noting it’s “angular, Sonic Youth-style guitar and earnest anger”, Blender’s Michael Leonard credited the album for being “more engaging than many of [the band’s] post-rock peers”, while Uncut similarly wrote that “compared to so many noisemongers, TOD understand that restraint enables unleashed firepower to be exhilarating and awesome.”

Tracks:
1.1 Invocation – Non Album Version (Side A)
1.2 It Was There That I Saw You – Album Version (Side A)
1.3 Another Morning Stoner – Album Version (Side A)
1.4 Baudelaire – Album Version (Side A)
1.5 Homage – E P (Side A)
1.6 How Near, How Far – Album Version (Side B)
1.7 Life Is Elsewhere – Non Album Version (Side B)
1.8 Heart in the Hand of the Matter – Album Version (Side B)
1.9 Monsoon – Album Version (Side B)
1.10 Days of Being Wild – Album Version (Side B)
2.1 Relative Ways – E P
2.2 After the Laughter – Album Version
2.3 Source Tags ; Codes – Album Version
2.4 Blood Rites – E P