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- Artist: The Line
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- Release Date: March 03, 2003
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Rock
Review
Auricle is the Line's second effort and finds the Cali combo in a mash-up mood. While rabid, rapid punk and hardcore revivalism are the band's basic M.O., the album begins with some off-kilter noodling that wouldn't be out of place on a Jawbox record, and "Hurry Up and Wait" downshifts repeatedly into fakey, Minutemen-style jazz-rock. These stylistic forays establish the album's theme, which freely and repeatedly mixes rattling punk anthems and ethos with brazen experimentation. Elements of insular post-punk, odd and lurching time signatures, and some of the greatest basslines to ever appear on a punk label all pop up here and there on Auricle. Even if these punk-pop-whatever lab experiments don't always work, they're refreshing in a genre that usually sticks to two or three well-worn grooves. Vocalist Don H's cynical humor is welcome also, since it's always more rewarding to hear a punk/hardcore vocalist swear and be angry than witness another recitation of sappy diary entries. Highlights on Auricle include the tightly wound "Destructive Preservation" ("I just burned all my bridges/And still I haven't f*ckin' learned"), the title track, and "Pocket Full of Posies." ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Fight, Fight, Fight | The Line | The Line | (3:16) |
| Hurry Up and Wait | The Line | The Line | (4:13) |
| Harmonic Disallusion | The Line | The Line | (3:47) |
| Bullshit | The Line | The Line | (2:01) |
| Destructive Preservation | The Line | The Line | (3:12) |
| Seventeen Dream | The Line | The Line | (1:44) |
| Auricle | The Line | The Line | (2:38) |
| Defeated by Ingenuity | The Line | The Line | (3:01) |
| Epicdemic | The Line, |
The Line | (1:54) |
| Pocket Full of Posies | The Line | The Line | (3:45) |
| The King | The Line | The Line | (2:41) |
| Be Your Own Reason | The Line | The Line | (7:04) |
