Put on Your Rosy Red Glasses is the debut studio album by American mathcore group the Number Twelve Looks Like You. It has been reissued twice since its original release by Brutal Records. It has been regarded as the band’s heaviest release.

Put on Your Rosy Red Glasses
Studio album by The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Released	March 7, 2003
Genre	Mathcore
Length	22:29
Label	Brutal
Producer	Kurt Ballou
The Number Twelve Looks Like You chronology
Put on Your Rosy Red Glasses (2003) An Inch of Gold for an Inch of Time (2005)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk.net	95% link
Allmusic	link
emotionalpunk	link
PunkNews.org	link

On June 12, 2015 the album was re-released on limited edition, hand numbered cassettes.

Writing concept

The lyrics of Put on Your Rosy Red Glasses are almost completely written in-perspective of well-known convicted murderer Albert Fish, although songs such as "If These Bullets Could Talk" and "Empty Calm" have no connection to the story of Fish.

The track "Document: Grace Budd" is a spoken^{[by whom?]} excerpt of a letter written by Fish, detailing his murder of Grace Budd in 1934. At the end of the track, there is a quote from an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Mr. Denton on Doomsday", in which he^[who?] sings: "How dry I am. Nobody knows how dry I am..." for a drink of alcohol.^{[citation needed]}

Other information

The track "Civeta Dei" translates in English to "City of God".

The music on this release is much heavier than the band's later releases. The vocals on this album were done by using the fry scream technique among both Korman and Pedrick. There were neither edits nor enhancements on either of their voices.

Track listing

All of the songs written and produced by The Number Twelve Looks Like You.

Personnel

The Number Twelve Looks Like You

• Jesse Korman - vocals
• Justin Pedrick - vocals
• Alexis Pareja - guitar
• Jamie Mcilroy - guitar
• Michael Smagula - bass guitar
• Christopher Conger - drums

Production and design

• Kurt Ballou - engineering, mastering, mixing, production
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You - production