Alkaline Trio “Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs” LP

Standard Black Vinyl LP Pressing. New 2024 Album.

Thank whatever gothic god you choose that the three genre veterans learned all the right lessons from their rollercoaster ride and used them to forge one of their strongest ever records. Zeroing in on the blueprint of “Radio Violence” – jagged, angular guitars propping up an absolutely golden hook – Blood, Hair, and Eyeballsdistinguishes itself from its predecessor with a tougher, garage rock sound. With the same production team behind…Cursed?returning, you can credit the change to the band actually constructing these songs face-to-face in the studio together for the first time since the early days. Fittingly for the final outing with Derek Grant, the band recorded drums to tape first and built the songs from the ground up, a true collaborative process which all but erases the Matt song/Dan song divide they’ve been using for their entire careers in place of something far more fluid.

Their tenth album accomplishes the rare feat of looking backwards and forwards at the same time, calling back to touchstones from all their major eras and synthesizing them into a whole that feels completely new.

Track Listing
Side A
1. Hot For Preacher
2 .Meet Me
3 .Versions Of You
4 .Bad Time
5 .Scars
6 .Break
Side B
1. Shake With Me
2. Blood, Hair, And Eyeballs
3. Hinterlude
4. Broken Down In A Time Machine
5. Teenage Heart