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Oracle is the second album by the Canadian metal band Kittie, released in 2001 by independent label Artemis Records. The album shows a change in the band's sound,^{[citation needed]} displaying more death metal influences. It was the only album to feature bassist Talena Atfield before she departed in 2002.

Oracle
Studio album by Kittie
Released	October 30, 2001 (2001-10-30)[1]
Recorded	EMAC Recording Studios, London, Ontario, Canada
Genre	Groove metal nu metal[2] thrash metal[3]
Length	47:41
Label	Artemis
Producer	Garth Richardson
Kittie chronology
Spit (2000) Oracle (2001) Safe (2002)
Singles from Oracle
"What I Always Wanted" Released: 2001 "Run Like Hell" Released: 2001

Background

After finishing their schedule on the 2001 SnoCore Tour, the band planned on returning to the same basement where they recorded their first album, to begin a work on a sophomore effort. In August 2001, guitarist Fallon Bowman left Kittie.[5]

Lead guitarist and vocalist Morgan Lander noted how the band members were only 14 years old when writing their debut album and that "We haven’t written in 4 or 5 years." She acknowledged a change in influence from their early days, stating, "Then we listened to bands like Nirvana, Silverchair, and Alice in Chains. Now we listen to stuff like Cannibal Corpse and Nile." However, the band would continue to write in the same fashion by first composing the music and then using that "as the backdrop behind the vocals."[6]

Morgan Lander explained the album title saying "An oracle speaks of truth, and sort of foresees the future," says Morgan. Morgan then said:

"This album is a coming-into-our-own album. We've found our own sound, and it's our truth. If you're not feeling in your heart what you're putting in to music, it's not worth a thing-I'm all about integrity, and keeping things pure and true, the way you intended them to be. There is a lot of emotion manifested into this really aggressive, raw sort of album, and it comes out in the music. I found out after we named the album that our ears have an oracle, and so do our hearts-So Oracle pertains to music, emotions, your heart. There's a lot that is intertwined."[7]

Commercial performance

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	56/100[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Alternative Press	[8]
Blender	[8]
NME	5/10[9]
Playlouder	[10]
Q	[8]
Robert Christgau	[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]
Spin	7/10[13]

The album debuted at #57 in the Billboard Top 200, selling 30,000 copies. By the end of December 2001 the album sold 115,000 units in the US. By the end of 2002, the album sold 225,000 units in the US. The music video for "What I Always Wanted" received heavy airplay on the MTV2 and MuchMusic channels. The album peaked at #121 on the Official Top UK Albums Chart. It also peaked at #91 on the Official German Albums chart.[14]

Track listing

Personnel

• Morgan Lander: vocals, guitar, piano
• Mercedes Lander: drums
• Talena Atfield: bass

Production

• Siegfried Meier - second engineer

References

1. "Amazon". Shoutweb.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-11-10.
2. "Shoutweb". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2008-11-10.

External links

• Oracle at Metacritic

На других языках

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- [en] Oracle (Kittie album)

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[es] Oracle (álbum)

Oracle es el segundo álbum de estudio de Kittie, una banda canadiense conformada solo por mujeres. Fue lanzado en 2001.

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[ru] Oracle (альбом Kittie)

Oracle (с англ. — «Оракул») — второй студийный альбом канадской метал-группы Kittie, выпущенный 30 октября 2001 года на лейбле Artemis Records. Альбом продемонстрировал смену звучания группы: оно стало более агрессивным по сравнению с предыдущим альбомом[5], и сочетает в себе элементы дэт-[1] и треш-метала[4]. Это последний альбом, записанный с басисткой Талиной Этфилд — в 2002 году она покинула группу.

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