It's the deep cuts that you play over and over again, trying to catch the meaning", they conclude that the album is "one of a kind". Commenting that "the singles aren't what make Transistor great. In contrast, the album was retrospectively received positively by Consequence of Sound, comparing it to The Beatles' album Sgt. Rolling Stone criticized the album, saying it was "trying too hard to expand their sonic horizons", and commented how they seem to unwillingly change their musical style. Entertainment Weekly also panned the album, stating that it features "some of the weakest rhymes and derivative white-bread dub in recent memory" and concluded that the band did not know "the thin line between experimentation and self-indulgence". Club, who says "With 21 songs spread out over 68 minutes, the record has taken plenty of critical punishment for its excessive length alone," and calls it a "joyless, tedious exercise in white-boy reggae, white-boy rap, white-boy dub and white-boy rock," concluding that the band could suffer a " Spin Doctors-style career combustion" in the future. The album has received criticism from The A.V. They nominated the title track as the only Track Pick from the album. Transistor received a mixed review from Allmusic, who commented that "a project of this magnitude is almost doomed to fall on its face, and Transistor nearly does," and noted there were enough good songs for a 30 to 40 minute album, but had too much filler. Reception Professional ratings Review scores Transistor also contains elements of dub, space rock and stoner rock. Although, their rap rock style is still present in some songs, such as "Galaxy", "No Control", "Tune In", "Starshines", and "Borders". While still utilizing their alternative rock sound in many songs, Transistor saw 311 moving away from their hip hop-influenced sound of their previous albums for more of a reggae-influenced sound, as shown in songs such as "Prisoner", "Inner Light Spectrum", "Running", "Rub a Dub", and "Stealing Happy Hours". Nick Hexum admitted that doing too many songs in not enough time for Transistor was a mistake. Transistor was originally intended to be a double album, but all songs were instead placed onto one disc. Retrospectively, however, the album has been more positively received, and was certified platinum by the RIAA.Ĭlocking in at 67:59 and with twenty-one tracks (or twenty-three, counting both hidden tracks), Transistor is 311's longest album and, until their 2017 album Mosaic, was their only album to contain more than sixteen tracks. Upon its release, Transistor received negative reviews from critics, who felt it was overlong and self-indulgent. The album saw a change in musical style as fewer songs feature rapping in comparison to the band's previous albums. ![]() All rights reserved.Transistor is the fourth studio album by American rock band 311, released on Augby Capricorn Records. “Just so much fun over the years that we’ve had there.”Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. “There’s a lot of history that we have with the city of New York and those albums in particular and those times,” says vocalist/turntablist Doug “SA” Martinez. Fittingly, that era of the band was deeply tied to the City That Never Sleeps - they loved playing the now-defunct NYC venue Wetlands so much that they named it in a lyric on the Grassroots song “Silver.” “It was just so much energy to those songs and to those shows.”ģ11 will play Music and Grassroots at New York City on October 1 and 2, respectively. “There’s always gonna be a special place for Music, for our first album,” Hexum says. Hexum is looking forward to revisiting some of 311’s earlier material, especially their 1993 debut, Music, and the “experimentation” of its follow-up, 1994’s Grassroots. That nostalgia isn’t just for the fans, either. ![]() “So it’s just a way to have a cool nostalgia and really just concentrate on one era for that particular show.” “Certain people are, like, ‘I love this one song that they don’t play very much, but if I go to that album show, they have to play it,'” frontman Nick Hexum tells ABC Audio. For a band that’s known for experimenting with their set lists, the full-album shows will give you the opportunity to hear that one song you’ve been dying for them to play. As part of their current fall tour, 311 will playing a number of full-album shows in select cities, during which they’ll be performing one of their first six albums in its entirety.
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