Letters Home (Defeater album)

Letters Home is the third studio album by American hardcore punk band Defeater. Like their previous releases, Letters Home is a concept album, following the story of the father of the characters from these releases prior to the events of Travels.

Letters Home
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 16, 2013 (2013-07-16)
RecordedFebruary–April 2013[1]
GenreMelodic hardcore, post-hardcore
Length34:10
LabelBridge 9 (B9R188)
Defeater chronology
Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
(2011)
Letters Home
(2013)
Abandoned
(2015)

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic81/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Exclaim!7/10[4]
Punknews.org[5]
Sputnikmusic3.5/5[6]

Letters Home received positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score 81/100 based on 8 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim."[2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Bastards"2:37
2."No Shame"3:32
3."Hopeless Again"3:13
4."Blood in My Veins"3:28
5."No Relief" (featuring George Hirsch of Blacklisted)2:29
6."No Faith"2:31
7."Dead Set"3:07
8."No Saviour"3:57
9."Rabbit Foot"2:45
10."Bled Out"6:33

Personnel

Defeater

  • Derek Archambault
  • Joe Longobardi
  • Jay Maas
  • Mike Poulin
  • Jake Woodruff
gollark: Your fingers approach the keys, and while the atoms in your fingers interact with the ones in the keyboard, they do not touch as such.
gollark: Technically, you don't "touch" anything.
gollark: No, goblins experience bottlenecks sometimes.
gollark: I thought they ran on goblins.
gollark: Typewriters are MECHANICAL?!

References

  1. Letters Home (Media notes). Defeater. Bridge 9 Records. 2013.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. "Letters Home by Defeater Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  3. Letters Home at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  4. Zorgdrager, Bradley (15 July 2013). "Defeater Letters Home". Exclaim!. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  5. Defeater - Letters Home on Punknews.org.
  6. "Defeater - Letters Home". Sputnikmusic. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2017.


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