Double vinyl LP pressing includes three bonus tracks plus an etching on Side D/4. Source Tags & Codes is the third album (and first for Interscope) from the alt-rock band,... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead. It is often cited as the band's finest work, yielding a sound texture that teeters on implosion and seeing the band yank the melody back at the last second. Source Tags & Codes was met with critical acclaim, receiving a score of 85 out of 100 on review aggregate site Metacritic, indicating universal acclaim". The Austin Chronicle's Michael Chamy called Source Tags & Codes "an album that absolutely cannot be ignored". Noel Murray of The A.V. Club wrote that the band "plays imaginative alt-rock with intense passion, and Source Tags & Codes let's the pressure build exquisitely." Noting it's "angular, Sonic Youth-style guitar and earnest anger", Blender's Michael Leonard credited the album for being "more engaging than many of [the band's] post-rock peers", while Uncut similarly wrote that "compared to so many noisemongers, TOD understand that restraint enables unleashed firepower to be exhilarating and awesome.""
Disc 1
- Invocation - Non Album Version (Side A)
- It Was There That I Saw You - Album Version (Side A)
- Another Morning Stoner - Album Version (Side A)
- Baudelaire - Album Version (Side A)
- Homage - E P (Side A)
- How Near, How Far - Album Version (Side B)
- Life Is Elsewhere - Non Album Version (Side B)
- Heart in the Hand of the Matter - Album Version (Side B)
- Monsoon - Album Version (Side B)
- Days of Being Wild - Album Version (Side B)
Disc 2
- Relative Ways - E P
- After the Laughter - Album Version
- Source Tags ; Codes - Album Version
- Blood Rites - E P
Label: Interscope Records
Catalog: 002682801
Genre: Rock