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, and once by Silent Pendulum Records as a 20th anniversary celebration. It has been regarded as the band’s heaviest release.
| Put on Your Rosy Red Glasses | ||||
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| Released | March 7, 2003 | |||
| Genre | Mathcore, grindcore | |||
| Length | 22:29 | |||
| Label | Brutal | |||
| Producer | Kurt Ballou | |||
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| 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
editThe 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 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
editThe 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
editAll of the songs written and produced by The Number Twelve Looks Like You.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Don't Get Blood on My Prada Shoes" | 1:36 |
| 2. | "Jesus and Tori" | 3:18 |
| 3. | "Document: Grace Budd" | 0:59 |
| 4. | "Blue Dress" | 2:28 |
| 5. | "If These Bullets Could Talk" | 4:05 |
| 6. | "Bambi the Hooker and a Case of Beer" | 0:54 |
| 7. | "Empty Calm" | 2:46 |
| 8. | "Civeta Dei" | 6:08 |
Personnel
edit- 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