"I Can Tell You About Pain"
Single by Converge
from the album The Dusk in Us
B-side"Eve"
ReleasedJuly 25, 2017 (2017-07-25)
Genre
Length10:00
Label
Songwriter(s)
[1]
Producer(s)Kurt Ballou
Converge singles chronology
"'Converge / Napalm Death'"
(2012)		 "I Can Tell You About Pain"
(2017)		 "Endless Arrow"
(2020)

"I Can Tell You About Pain" is a single by American metalcore band Converge. It was released on July 25, 2017, as a 7-inch vinyl record via Epitaph and Deathwish, Inc.,[2][3] with the much longer track "Eve" as a B-side. The music video for the song "I Can Tell You About Pain" was directed by Tony Wolski.[4]

Music and critical reception

Consequence of Sound's Randall Colburn wrote: ""Eve" serves as a contrast to "I Can Tell You About Pain", as its seven-plus minutes incorporate group chants and menacing synths into its crashing guitars and pummeling percussion, giving the song an eerie epicness."[2] Stereogum writer Tom Breihan described "Eve" as "a monstrous epic", and stated: "Both songs are punishing in very different ways."[4] Pitchfork critic Saby Reyes-Kulkarni thought that "I Can Tell You About Pain"'s production style "almost leans in a black metal direction, giving the song a deceptively quick-and-dirty sound." Reyes-Kulkarni further stated: "This ability to switch from surgically precise to blunt and back again is what keeps Converge continually gripping."[5]

Andy Cush of Spin wrote: "The former ["I Can Tell You About Pain"] is quick and raw, finding the band in full-on firebreathing madness mode; the latter ["Eve"] is an unusually moody epic that clocks in at nearly eight minutes long."[3] Graham Hartmann from Loudwire described "Eve" as "a more experimental piece of Converge's catalogue", stating: "Focusing on doom and drone characteristics, Converge stretch out the expansive track in a way that feels truly inspired. Kurt Ballou's production is top-notch, as always, building a colossal wall of sound for "Eve" that remains dense even in its softest moments."[6] Treble Zine wrote that the former track is "an intense, rhythmically jerky noise-rock burner" while the latter "has some common traits with Oakland sludge innovators Neurosis, with whom the band is touring this summer."[7]

Accolades

Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
Loudwire 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017
10
SPIN The 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017
8

Track listing

All songs written by Converge.

  1. "I Can Tell You About Pain" – 2:24
  2. "Eve" – 7:36

Personnel

Converge

References

  1. ↑ "ASCAP Repertory entry for this song". ASCAP. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
  2. 1 2 Colburn, Randall (July 25, 2017). "Converge release new 7-inch EP, share music video for "I Can Tell You About Pain": Watch". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  3. 1 2 Cush, Andy (July 25, 2017). "Converge Are Back With Two New Songs: "I Can Tell You About Pain" and "Eve"". Spin. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Breihan, Tom (July 25, 2017). "Converge – "I Can Tell You About Pain" Video & "Eve"". Stereogum. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ Reyes-Kulkarni, Saby (July 27, 2017). "Converge – "I Can Tell You About Pain"". Pitchfork. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ Hartmann, Graham (July 25, 2017). "Converge Unleash Two New Songs + Video For 'I Can Tell You About Pain'". Loudwire. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Converge announce new single, "I Can Tell You About Pain"". Treble Zine. July 25, 2017. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  8. ↑ "25 Best Metal Songs of 2017". Loudwire. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  9. ↑ Cush, Andy. "The 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017". SPIN. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
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