Ursa Major

Ursa Major

by Third Eye Blind
Ursa Major

Ursa Major

by Third Eye Blind

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record)

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Overview

When Third Eye Blind released Out of the Vein in 2003, they felt like post-grunge relics that refused to acknowledge their time had passed. Six years later, with Ursa Major in tow, they've waited out the fallow time, surfacing just when late-'90s alt rock nostalgia is beginning to bubble. Tellingly, TEB shuck much of the heavy, oppressive sobriety of Out of the Vein, replacing it with a touch of the fizzy, singsong hooks that made their debut a smash success. Without guitarist Kevin Cadogan, these hooks aren't as finely honed, but they're still present, still digging in right underneath the surface, letting Stephan Jenkins get away with such nonsense as "Why can't you be like my Water Pik shower massager/A sweet reliable machine/To tell you the truth I don't feel less alone/A water massager is the purest love I've ever known." Jenkins digs deeper than the attributes of a massage, retaining no small element of the hard-edged social consciousness of Out of the Vein, signaling when it's time for things to get serious by toning down the hooks, turning down the volume, and letting the seriousness of the situation speak for itself. This makes the back half of Ursa Major kind of a self-important drag, almost erasing memories of the first side when Third Eye Blind were once again acting like the band they used to be, so the solution is simple: treat Ursa Major as an EP, forgetting the second half. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 08/18/2009
Label: Megacollider Records
UPC: 0020286136019

Tracks

  1. Can You Take Me
  2. Don't Believe A Word
  3. Bonfire
  4. Sharp Knife
  5. One In Ten
  6. About To Break
  7. Summer Town
  8. Why Can't You Be
  9. Water Landing
  10. Dao Of St. Paul
  11. Monotov's Private Opera
  12. Carnival Barker [Instrumenal]

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Third Eye Blind   Primary Artist
Stephan Jenkins   Keyboards,Percussion,Vocals,Guitar,Drums
Arion Salazar   Bass
Mauri Skinfill   Vocals (Background)
Brad Hargreaves   Percussion,Piano,Drums
Tony Fredianelli   Vocals (Background),Keyboards,Guitar

Technical Credits

Tony Hoffer   Mixing
Sean Beresford   Mixing,Engineer
Chris Lord-Alge   Mixing
Stephan Jenkins   Composer,Producer
Eva Kolenko   Photography,Photography
Ari Ingber   Composer
Mary Scott   Art Direction,Design
Tony Fredianelli   Composer
Vlado Meller   Mastering
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