Centralia is the debut studio album by the American band Car Bomb. This was the band's first full-length release, following a 2004 demo. It is also the band's only release through Relapse Records, which dropped the band four years later in 2011.[1]
The album's title was named after the doomed town of Centralia, Pennsylvania, which was abandoned during an underground mine fire.[2] The track's lyrical content and titles cover various topics - Cielo Drive (also known as 'Bloodbath Orgy') was named after the road on which one of the infamous Manson Family spree-killings were committed (10050 Cielo Drive), H5N1 is the medical abbreviation for the then-recent outbreak strain of Bird Flu, while 'M^6' covers neglect of a mother.
Critics praised the album's complex and ferocious rhythms. Keith Bergman, writing for Blabbermouth.net, argues in a highly positive 8/10 review that the album is "a lurching start-stop mélange of tempos that switch back and forth fast enough to give you whiplash, even more brutal for its lack of cohesion and unsettling, jittery rhythmic convulsions."[3]
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| 1. | "Pieces of You" | 2:58 |
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| 2. | "Gum Under the Table" | 3:27 |
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| 3. | "Rid" | 0:27 |
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| 4. | "Cellophane Stiletto" | 2:53 |
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| 5. | "Best Intentions" | 4:26 |
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| 6. | "M^6" | 2:15 |
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| 7. | "His Eyes" | 4:18 |
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| 8. | "Hypnotic Worm" | 3:19 |
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| 9. | "Cielo Drive" | 2:27 |
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| 10. | "Solid Grey" | 2:12 |
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| 11. | "H5N1" | 3:14 |
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Japanese release included the song 'Bra-c-ket'.
