Kill Rock Stars
2001
Leaves Turn Inside You
About This Album
The title of the Tumwater, WA, trio Unwound's seventh studio album implies a subtle, personal, internal shift. A drift from summer into autumn, an undeterrable and, at base, unsettling change of self that's akin to a calm but determined change of seasons. Leaves Turn Inside You is the culmination of Unwound's three-year process of reinvention, and on first listen by anyone familiar with the band's trademark slash and burn abrasiveness, the transition seems anything but subtle. The path that led to the the band's first double album wasn't an abrupt and contrived stylistic leap, however. The members had aged a bit, taking the three years since recording 1998's Challenge for a Civilized Society to ponder their musical identities, an introspective windfall that led them to construct their MagRecOne (Magnetic Recording Academy) studio, and to the decision to self-produce an album for the first time in their ten-year history. At the end of two long years, the band had built and rebuilt MagRecOne, and labored under its own standards of quality control until the 14 songs that would make up Leaves Turn Inside You were finished. All the while, individual band members were occupied recording bands populated by kindred spirits who identified with the studio proprietors' methods and manifesto, and also working on side projects such as bass player Vern Rumsey's Long Hind Legs.
Track List

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