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Baroness - Blue Record (2009) [Deluxe Edition, 2CD]

Date: 20 Oct 2009 12:12:00

Georgia-based psychedelic rock band (calling them a metal act seems very reductive, though there's some seriously headbangable material on this disc) Baroness has made a subtle but unmistakable evolutionary leap on this, their second full-length and a clear companion piece to 2007's Red Album. It's hard to say exactly what new guitarist Pete Adams has brought to the band after replacing drummer Allen Blickle's brother Brian, but the band's established blend of Southern sludge riffs, druggy instrumental journeys, and melodic interstitial interludes, all propelled by a particularly thudding drum sound and held together by John Baizley's hoarse but clean vocals and gorgeous cover art, are even stronger now than before. The transition from the almost Moody Blues-like "Steel That Sleeps the Eye" into the crunching hard rock epic "Swollen and Halo" is just one example of Baroness' seamless melding of moods through technique and compositional acumen. There are numerous interludes on the disc – basically, any track shorter than four minutes is an exploration of a riff followed by a dissolve into sound effects or keyboard swooshes, slowly dissolving into the next actual song. "Ogeechee Hymnal," for example, offers one of the album's heaviest riffs, but it's a mere appetizer before "A Horse Called Golgotha," a suitably galloping prog-metal epic that effectively conquers Mastodon's territory, and includes some astonishing guitar leads. This is a ferocious album that's not afraid to be genuinely beautiful. One of the best hard rock releases of 2009.

~ by Phil Freeman, allmusic.com

CD1:
1. Bullhead's Psalm - 1:20
2. The Sweetest Curse - 4:30
3. Jake Leg - 4:23
4. Steel That Sleeps the Eye - 2:38
5. Swollen and Halo - 6:35
6. Ogeechee Hymnal - 2:35
7. A Horse Called Golgotha - 5:21
8. O'er Hell and Hide - 4:22
9. War, Wisdom and Rhyme - 4:25
10. Blackpowder Orchard - 1:00
11. The Gnashing - 4:17
12. Bullhead's Lament - 2:59

EAC extraction logfile

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 20. October 2009, 12:32

Baroness / Blue Record

Used drive : SONY DVD RW AW-G170A Adapter: 0 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

TOC of the extracted CD

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2 | 1:20.00 | 4:30.54 | 6000 | 26303
3 | 5:50.54 | 4:23.09 | 26304 | 46037
4 | 10:13.63 | 2:38.12 | 46038 | 57899
5 | 12:52.00 | 6:35.23 | 57900 | 87547
6 | 19:27.23 | 2:35.38 | 87548 | 99210
7 | 22:02.61 | 5:21.18 | 99211 | 123303
8 | 27:24.04 | 4:22.30 | 123304 | 142983
9 | 31:46.34 | 4:25.37 | 142984 | 162895
10 | 36:11.71 | 1:00.40 | 162896 | 167435
11 | 37:12.36 | 4:17.41 | 167436 | 186751
12 | 41:30.02 | 2:59.21 | 186752 | 200197

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Range quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC B43375AD
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No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

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Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
Track 4 not present in database
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Track 11 not present in database
Track 12 not present in database

None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

End of status report

auCDtect

auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
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Processing file: [Baroness - Blue Record.wav]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.004792e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.271358e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.162786e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.085169e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 6.147869e-001
First order smothness: 3.462743e-001
Second order smothness: 4.414527e-001

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This track looks like CDDA with probability 99%

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Final Conclusion:
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These tracks looks like CDDA with probability 100%

CD2 (Live At Roadburn Festval 2009):
1. The Birthing - 8:56
2. Isak - 4:22
3. Rays on Pinion - 8:34
4. Wanderlust - 5:14
5. Grad - 7:22

EAC extraction logfile

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008

EAC extraction logfile from 20. October 2009, 12:57

Baroness / Blue Record (Bonus CD)

Used drive : SONY DVD RW AW-G170A Adapter: 0 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface

Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

TOC of the extracted CD

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1 | 0:00.00 | 8:56.18 | 0 | 40217
2 | 8:56.18 | 4:21.57 | 40218 | 59849
3 | 13:18.00 | 8:33.67 | 59850 | 98391
4 | 21:51.67 | 5:13.65 | 98392 | 121931
5 | 27:05.57 | 7:22.11 | 121932 | 155092

Range status and errors

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Filename D:\Music\Baroness - Blue Record (Bonus CD).wav

Peak level 99.9 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Copy CRC 24C60365
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 not present in database
Track 2 not present in database
Track 3 not present in database
Track 4 not present in database
Track 5 not present in database

None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

End of status report

auCDtect

auCDtect: CD records authenticity detector, version 0.8.2
Copyright © 2004 Oleg Berngardt. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2004 Alexander Djourik. All rights reserved.
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Processing file: [Baroness - Blue Record (Bonus CD).wav]
Detected average hi-boundary frequency: 2.019662e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-boundary frequency: 1.335546e+004 Hz
Detected average hi-cut frequency: 2.128481e+004 Hz
Detected average lo-cut frequency: 1.165723e+004 Hz
Maximum probablis boundary frequency: 2.189100e+004 Hz
Coefficient of nonlinearity of a phase: 2.158042e-001
First order smothness: 3.350849e-001
Second order smothness: 5.165724e-001

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
This track looks like CDDA with probability 100%

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Final Conclusion:
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
These tracks looks like CDDA with probability 100%

Baroness is:
John Dyer Baizley - guitar, vocals, piano
Pete Adams - guitar, vocals
Allen Blickle - drums
Summer Welch - bass

Recorded and mixed by John Congleton in May and June 2009 at the Track Studio (Plano, TX) and Elmwood Studio (Dallas, TX).
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side.
Produceb by Baroness and John Congleton
Artwork by John Dyer Baizley.

MP3 320 CBR Acid Rock Stoner rock 2000s Rock Hard Rock Lossless