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I Can Tell You About Pain

I Can Tell You About Pain

2017 single by Converge

"I Can Tell You About Pain" is a single by American metalcore band Converge. It was released on July 25, 2017, as a 7-inch vinyl record via Epitaph and Deathwish, Inc.,[2][3] with the much longer track "Eve" as a B-side. The music video for the song "I Can Tell You About Pain" was directed by Tony Wolski.[4]

Quick Facts Single by Converge, from the album The Dusk in Us ...

Music and critical reception

Consequence of Sound's Randall Colburn wrote: ""Eve" serves as a contrast to "I Can Tell You About Pain", as its seven-plus minutes incorporate group chants and menacing synths into its crashing guitars and pummeling percussion, giving the song an eerie epicness."[2] Stereogum writer Tom Breihan described "Eve" as "a monstrous epic", and stated: "Both songs are punishing in very different ways."[4] Pitchfork critic Saby Reyes-Kulkarni thought that "I Can Tell You About Pain"'s production style "almost leans in a black metal direction, giving the song a deceptively quick-and-dirty sound." Reyes-Kulkarni further stated: "This ability to switch from surgically precise to blunt and back again is what keeps Converge continually gripping."[5]

Andy Cush of Spin wrote: "The former ["I Can Tell You About Pain"] is quick and raw, finding the band in full-on firebreathing madness mode; the latter ["Eve"] is an unusually moody epic that clocks in at nearly eight minutes long."[3] Graham Hartmann from Loudwire described "Eve" as "a more experimental piece of Converge's catalogue", stating: "Focusing on doom and drone characteristics, Converge stretch out the expansive track in a way that feels truly inspired. Kurt Ballou's production is top-notch, as always, building a colossal wall of sound for "Eve" that remains dense even in its softest moments."[6] Treble Zine wrote that the former track is "an intense, rhythmically jerky noise-rock burner" while the latter "has some common traits with Oakland sludge innovators Neurosis, with whom the band is touring this summer."[7]

Accolades

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Track listing

All songs written by Converge.

  1. "I Can Tell You About Pain" – 2:24
  2. "Eve" – 7:36

Personnel

Converge

References

  1. [1]
    "ASCAP Repertory entry for this song". ASCAP. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  2. [2]
    Colburn, Randall (July 25, 2017). "Converge release new 7-inch EP, share music video for "I Can Tell You About Pain": Watch". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  3. [3]
    Cush, Andy (July 25, 2017). "Converge Are Back With Two New Songs: "I Can Tell You About Pain" and "Eve"". Spin. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  4. [4]
    Breihan, Tom (July 25, 2017). "Converge – "I Can Tell You About Pain" Video & "Eve"". Stereogum. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  5. [5]
    Reyes-Kulkarni, Saby (July 27, 2017). "Converge – "I Can Tell You About Pain"". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  6. [6]
    Hartmann, Graham (July 25, 2017). "Converge Unleash Two New Songs + Video For 'I Can Tell You About Pain'". Loudwire. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  7. [7]
    "Converge announce new single, "I Can Tell You About Pain"". Treble Zine. July 25, 2017. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  8. [8]
    "25 Best Metal Songs of 2017". Loudwire. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  9. [9]
    Cush, Andy. "The 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017". SPIN. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
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