Crazy Eyes (Filter album)
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| Studio album by Filter | ||||
| Released | April 8, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2014-2015 at Studio 11:11, NRG Recording Studios, The Mix Room | |||
| Genre | Industrial rock | |||
| Length | 50:35 | |||
| Label | Wind-Up Records | |||
| Producer | Richard Patrick | |||
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Crazy Eyes is the seventh studio album by American industrial rock band Filter. The album was released on April 8, 2016. The first single, "Take Me to Heaven", was released in January 2016. In its opening week, the album debuted at number 151 on the Billboard 200 charts, the band's lowest debut to date.
Similar to several other Filter albums, prior to recording, the band received an entire lineup change besides frontman and band founder Richard Patrick. New members recruited included guitarist Oumi Kapila, bassist Ashley Dzerigian, drummer Chris Reeve and keyboardist Bobby Miller.
The album marked a change in sound from prior Filter albums, moving into a direction Patrick coined as "new industrial". He described it as "...more experimental and crazy...scary, weird places instead of doing that big-ass guitar sound again."Billboard described it as "...hardly bereft of guitars but there are a substantial amount of electronics and effects in use. The result features heavy industrial crunch and solemn, ambient songs that reach back to Patrick’s time in Nine Inch Nails and the first Filter album, 1995’s Short Bus.
Thematically, the album still keeps with the band's themes of frustration and anger. Additionally, Patrick described it as an attempt "to look at people's unexplainable behavior and assess it, using sound. It's a way to approximate the insanity of the human condition." The track "Take Me to Heaven" was written by Patrick's struggle with dealing with the death of his father. Patrick recalled:
I was looking into the eyes of my father when he was passing away, and I held his hand...He glanced at me really quickly, focused on me, had this look of gratitude, and then he slipped away. I was almost like, 'I hope you're going to heaven'. Scientifically, the idea doesn't make any sense to me, but if there is a heaven, take me there.
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