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Coming off their Victory Records debut, Plead the Fifth, a highly successful Active Rock radio campaign, and multiple headlining tours, Taproot look to continue their reign atop the modern hard rock empire with their upcoming sixth full length release, The Episodes. This album is a poignant and complexly developed concept album with interlacing characters on their search for understanding. The tone and feeling throughout the storyline is dramatically reflected in the music Taproot has crafted on The Episodes. The new album expands upon all of the intense and melodic elements fans have come to expect from the band with an updated take on their style of heavy rock
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This is a concept album, an album telling a story, hence the narration of Stephen Hawking as some of you like to say. And you can say this is an experimentation album too. They wrote this many years back and decided to put the finishing touches on it and release it. So basically, its more of an album for them and their hardcore fans, not necessarily for newbies that are just breaking in to listening to the band. I love the album.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By superman73
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They use that speak and spell voice often which kinda got old. Other than that the album is pretty good.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Scamp4553
Format:Audio CD
At the end of my review for Plead the Fifth, I made a statement about this record, entitled The Episodes, hoping that it would improve from the already flawless album Plead the Fifth. After two listens to this new record, I would say that it does live up, even though not in the way that I expected it. Nevertheless, The Episodes is still one of the best records of 2012 so far, and the year is still relatively starting for rock music.
The Episodes is nothing like Taproot has done before. In fact, it's definitely a concept album. Each song tells a story, each song builds it way up as the album progresses, and it retains the melodic and heavy nature of the previous Taproot albums. The best "episodes" of this album (pardon the pun) are Good Morning, the already released to radio single No Surrender, The Everlasting, Around The Bend, A Kiss from the Sky, Strange And Fascinating, and the fitting and powerful ending We Don't Belong Here.
Sadly, this album is not getting as much positive attention on this website as Plead the Fifth, due to an odd robotic voice that appears on 5 of the 10 songs on the disc. I do agree that the robotic voice gets kind of distracting from the song, and it's sort of unnecessary. Thankfully, the robotic voice doesn't completely ruin the five songs, or the album in general. To me, this is one of the things that makes this album a "complex" album, and it tries to become different.
Overall, I recommend this album. It's a diverse album that perfectly balances melodic and heavy songs, and also uses more constructive time signatures as well as complexity. Sadly, due to the odd robotic voice, it doesn't level up to the lyrically excellent and straight-forward Plead the Fifth, not that The Episodes isn't straight forward. But, it's still a more mature record from Taproot, and I hope Taproot continues with their independent-label success.
TRACKS:
Good Morning (5/5)
No Surrender (5/5)
Lost Boy (4/5)
Memorial Park (4/5)
The Everlasting (5/5)
Around the Bend (5/5)
A Kiss From The Sky (5/5)
Strange and Fascinating (5/5)
A Golden Grey(4/5)
We Don't Belong Here (5/5)
ALBUM SCORE: (47/50)
Rating: 5 stars/5 stars
The Episodes is nothing like Taproot has done before. In fact, it's definitely a concept album. Each song tells a story, each song builds it way up as the album progresses, and it retains the melodic and heavy nature of the previous Taproot albums. The best "episodes" of this album (pardon the pun) are Good Morning, the already released to radio single No Surrender, The Everlasting, Around The Bend, A Kiss from the Sky, Strange And Fascinating, and the fitting and powerful ending We Don't Belong Here.
Sadly, this album is not getting as much positive attention on this website as Plead the Fifth, due to an odd robotic voice that appears on 5 of the 10 songs on the disc. I do agree that the robotic voice gets kind of distracting from the song, and it's sort of unnecessary. Thankfully, the robotic voice doesn't completely ruin the five songs, or the album in general. To me, this is one of the things that makes this album a "complex" album, and it tries to become different.
Overall, I recommend this album. It's a diverse album that perfectly balances melodic and heavy songs, and also uses more constructive time signatures as well as complexity. Sadly, due to the odd robotic voice, it doesn't level up to the lyrically excellent and straight-forward Plead the Fifth, not that The Episodes isn't straight forward. But, it's still a more mature record from Taproot, and I hope Taproot continues with their independent-label success.
TRACKS:
Good Morning (5/5)
No Surrender (5/5)
Lost Boy (4/5)
Memorial Park (4/5)
The Everlasting (5/5)
Around the Bend (5/5)
A Kiss From The Sky (5/5)
Strange and Fascinating (5/5)
A Golden Grey(4/5)
We Don't Belong Here (5/5)
ALBUM SCORE: (47/50)
Rating: 5 stars/5 stars
Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars
It's Taproot, but in name only
I've seen these guys in concert multiple times and love all of their previous albums. This one is a bit of a stretch. Not really my cup of tea. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Osu buckeye 31
3.0 out of 5 stars
better episodes
I feel Taproot is stretching their boundrys a bit.They have never been really widely accepted but they have been at it for a while. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Brent N. Humphrey
3.0 out of 5 stars
its is just ok
Taproot is a good band that has had a lot of good songs but this disc is a little different, if you have watched the videos for this disc it seems like this one is a story disc, or... Read more
Published 2 months ago by BSC3ATW
2.0 out of 5 stars
Weak
I generally like Taproot, but this album failed to ever grow on me. In fact there are too many parts, where the singer is trying to be 'hard' in a kind of rappy way, that just... Read more
Published 3 months ago by M. Collins
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worth Checking Out
Taproot's sixth album, "The Episodes" was one of my most anticipated releases in 2012. I have to admit that upon it's release I was less than impressed. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Andrew Land
4.0 out of 5 stars
Love Taproot, but this could have been better
I love Taproot, I really do...but almost every song sounds the same on this album. A little disappointing, but It still got 4 stars from me.
Published 4 months ago by ChrisTeem
2.0 out of 5 stars
Slow and Boring
As a fan of only Taproot's heavier side (Gift and Plead the Fifth), I was not a fan of Episodes at all. Read more
Published 5 months ago by J. Hake
5.0 out of 5 stars
SUCH A GOOD ALBUM!
This album is different, but stays true to who Taproot really is. I lvoe this album, and I love the "speak and spell" that's on every track. This is such a great album!!! Read more
Published 6 months ago by LA13
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding!
I love every song on this CD. Especially The Everlasting. I found out about the new CD on SiriusXM and on Twitter. Very pleased with the price as well :-)
Published 6 months ago by Stonecoldmac7
4.0 out of 5 stars
solid rock and metal mix
I've never really listened to Taproot before this, but after some discussion with co-workers I decided to check them out, and this was their most recent release, so that's where I... Read more
Published 6 months ago by M. Matthew
