Artist: Third Eye Blind | Album: Dopamine | Released: 2015 | Genre: Rock
Six years is a long time between albums, so it’s not surprising Third Eye Blind changed between the release of 2009’s Ursa Major and 2015’s Dopamine. The biggest change was the contentious departure of guitarist Tony Fredianelli, a mainstay in TEB since he replaced founding member Kevin Cadogan in 2000, a move that reinforces how Third Eye Blind is very much the Stephan Jenkins show. Dopamine pushes Jenkins’ emotional bloodletting to the forefront, drawing explicit connections to such early, earnest hits as “Jumper.” Much of the album marches to these strident strums with the band choosing to prioritize drama over hooks, providing an appropriate-enough setting for Jenkins’ cloistered, claustrophobic confessions. That isn’t to say Dopamine is devoid of pop, though. When the record gets cooking, chorus melodies can soar and riffs can punch, creating an insistent, surging, miniaturized arena rock — music where the emotions and sound exist on a grand scale but the intent feels intimate. Some of this modesty does indeed derive from how the hooks feel sculpted, not immediate — the exceptions, “All the Souls” and “Rites of Passage,” put the rest of the record in sharp relief — and that fussiness suggests that Dopamine was a bit of a difficult birth, an impression underscored by the explicit call-backs to TEB’s past on the title track. Even if Dopamine shows the scars of labor, that in itself is impressive, and it also emphasizes how, nearly 20 years into his career, Stephan Jenkins prefers to indulge in his idiosyncrasies and not polish them for reasons related to pop.
Tracklisting:
01. Everything Is Easy
02. Shipboard Cook
03. All the Souls
04. Dopamine
05. Rites of Passage
06. Back To Zero
07. Something in You
08. Get Me out of Here
09. Blade
10. All These Things
11. Exiles
12. Say It
Single download
Third Eye Blind – Everything Is Easy 
Third Eye Blind – Shipboard Cook
Third Eye Blind – All the Souls
Third Eye Blind – Dopamine
Third Eye Blind – Rites of Passage
Third Eye Blind – Back To Zero
Third Eye Blind – Something in You
Third Eye Blind – Get Me out of Here
Third Eye Blind – Blade
Third Eye Blind – All These Things
Third Eye Blind – Exiles
Category:Rock
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