HMTV Canada Interviews Poison The Well





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HMTV Canada Interviews Poison The Well


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A Little Bit About Poisen The Well



“The Tropic Rot”
1. Exist Underground
2. Sparks It Will Rain
3. Cinema
4. Pamplemousse
5. Who Doesn't Love A Good Dismemberment?
6. Antarctia Inside Me
7. When You Lose I Lose As Well
8. Celebrate The Pyre
9. Are You Anywhere?
10. Makeshift Clay You
11. Without You And One Other I Am Nothing


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Poison the Well. Think for a second about just what those three words imply, and you’ll have a good idea of how these South Florida-based post-hardcore titans have approached music since their 1998 debut. With their fifth studio album, The Tropic Rot, Poison the Well reach the apex of the idea behind their name, rolling out a wide-angle take on heavy music that’s so fully realized in its boundary-pushing, it makes it impossible to imagine the genre in any other way.


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Like 2007’s Versions and the 2008 7” vinyl EP series I/III, II/III and III/III that sprang from that album’s sessions, The Tropic Rot is more post-hardcore than hardcore proper. Recorded in California with legendary producer Steve Evetts (Every Time I Die, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Cure, Story of the Year), the album finds PTW working with non-traditional instrumentation, cinematic influences, and bigger-than-ever guitar and vocal melodies. Unlike the more willfully eclectic approach on those releases, however, The Tropic Rot refines these outside inspirations to a veritable knifepoint.



“A lot of people looked at Versions as a concept record with this sort of ‘heavy spaghetti western’ theme, but that wasn’t the intent. I think it just came off that way because those happened to be the sounds in my head at the time,” says Primack, who rounds out Poison the Well alongside singer Jeffrey Moreira, drummer Chris Hornbrook, and the band’s two new full-time members (both as of 2008), bassist Bradley Grace and guitarist Bradley Clifford. “With this record, it feels like the first time we’ve had a unified theme throughout. It’s not a ‘concept record’ in that there’s a storyline, but I do think that writing here in Florida and rehearsing six days a week in a cramped, oppressive sweatbox the way we did absolutely affected the way the music feels.”

The Tropic Rot also marks the first time since 2002’s Tear from the Red that Poison the Well stayed so close to home to work on a record. (Both Versions and 2003’s lone major-label release You Come before You were cut in Sweden.) As Primack tells it, that experience had a profound impact on The Tropic Rot’s outcome. “I find this record to be much angrier than Versions,” he says, taking care not to reveal too much of the motivation behind Moreira’s typically hard-to-decipher lyrics. “It definitely reeks of stagnation; this idea of feeling disillusioned in a place that people consider paradise. You tell people you’re from Florida, and they think your life is a wonderland where Mickey Mouse is bringing you milkshakes every day. The reality is that you live in an area that’s built on tourism, where the summers are really harsh and the falls and winters are just bloated with strange faces.”



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