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Rites of Spring is the only studio album by American post-hardcore band Rites of Spring. It was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in February 1985 and released on vinyl in June 1985 as Dischord Records #16. The album was produced by Ian MacKaye and contains twelve songs.

Rites of Spring
Studio album by Rites of Spring
Released	June 1985
Recorded	February 1985
Genre	Post-hardcore emo
Length	37:32
Label	Dischord
Producer	Ian Mackaye
Rites of Spring chronology
Rites of Spring (1985) All Through a Life (1987)

The album was re-released on CD and cassette in 1987, with an additional track from the same session, "Other Way Around", as well as the four songs from the Rites' follow-up EP, All Through a Life (track 14–17), recorded January 1986 and released in 1987 (Dischord #22). End on End features the same cover as the debut album.

Music

Influenced by The Faith, Rites of Spring continued to combine desperate introspective lyrics with angry melody-tinged songwriting that moved even further from the hardcore punk formula.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

The album was listed at number 30 on Kurt Cobain's top 50 favorite albums.[3][4] Pitchfork online magazine ranked it number 96 on its list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1980s.[5] It has appeared on various best-of emo album lists by Consequence of Sound,[6] Kerrang!,[7] LA Weekly,[8] and Rolling Stone,[9] as well as by journalists Leslie Simon and Trevor Kelley in their book Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture (2007).[10] Metal Hammer named the album in their list of "the 10 essential post-hardcore albums."[11]

Kelefa Sanneh described it as, "The first emo album, and still one of the greatest. It was a volatile album, with Picciotto screaming lyrics that a different singer may have chosen to whisper.[12]

Track listing

All songs written by Rites of Spring.

Side one

1. "Spring" – 2:09
2. "Deeper Than Inside" – 2:17
3. "For Want Of" – 3:09
4. "Hain's Point" – 2:08
5. "All There Is" – 2:54
6. "Drink Deep" – 4:54

Side two

1. "Theme" – 2:19
2. "By Design" – 2:38
3. "Remainder" – 2:30
4. "Persistent Vision" – 2:21
5. "Nudes" – 2:48
6. "End On End" – 7:23

Personnel

Rites of Spring

• Guy Picciotto – vocals, guitar
• Eddie Janney – guitar
• Mike Fellows – bass
• Brendan Canty – drums

Additional performers

• Ian MacKaye – backing vocals

Production

• Ian MacKaye – production
• Michael Hampton – production

References

Citations

Sources

External links

• Rites of Spring at Dischord.com

На других языках

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- [en] Rites of Spring (album)

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[ru] Rites of Spring (альбом)

Rites of Spring — первый и единственный студийный альбом американской эмо-группы Rites of Spring. В пластинку вошло двенадцать композиций. В качестве музыкального продюсера альбома выступал большой поклонник группы Иэн Маккей, известный своим участием в таких панк-ансамблях, как Minor Threat и The Teen Idles.

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