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Versions | ||||
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Released | April 2, 2007 | |||
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Studio | Tonteknik Recording Studios, Umeå, Sweden | |||
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Length | 41:58 | |||
Label | Ferret Music | |||
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Source | Rating |
AbsolutePunk.net | 82%[3] |
AllMusic | [4] |
Alternative Press | 4.5/5[5] |
Chronicles of Chaos | 8/10[6] |
Metal.de | 8/10[7] |
Ox-Fanzine | 10/10[8] |
Spin | [9] |
Versions is Poison the Well's fourth studio album. It was released on April 2, 2007, in Europe and April 3, 2007, World Wide via Ferret Music. Versions is the first release for Poison the Well on Ferret Music and is also the band's first release since 2003's You Come Before You. In Japan, the album was released by Howling Bull Entertainment and features the bonus track "Oceanbreast".
The trio of Ryan Primack (guitar), Chris Hornbrook (drums) and Jeffrey Moreira (vocals) wrote the album over a number of years. Primack describes the material as having many more colors and nuances than previous work. "The songs are pretty open-ended and there's a lot of unique instrumentation in the background throughout such as mandolins, slide guitar, horns and banjo," he says.[10]
Primack, who plays all of the more unusual instruments on the disc, adds, "This is not out of the blue. We actually started to add these elements to the last album but we didn't have time to flesh them out like with 'Versions'. It's going to be a really different sounding album in hardcore. Well, as different as you can be in hardcore nowadays."[10]