Green Carnation "Acoustic Verses (USA, The End Records, TE063)"

Acoustic Verses is the fifth full-length studio album by the Norwegian progressive metal band Green Carnation. It was released on January 30, 2006, via Sublife Productions.

The album features three songs included on their 2005 EP The Burden Is Mine... Alone: "Sweet Leaf", "The Burden Is Mine... Alone", as well as the cover of Jon English's 1978 international hit "Six Ribbons" (only in the special edition).

Acoustic Verses was another stylistic shift for Green Carnation. On the album, as the name suggests, the band played all acoustic instruments, showing off a softer, warmer style for the band while retaining the progressive and darker feels they established since their debut. Acoustic Verses was a change with respect to the previous works of the group, in which practically all their members participated in its composition.

The album was met with positive reviews. Blabbermouth.net rated it with an eight and described it as "it's as lush, orchestrated, and enigmatic as any 'electric' album from this quizzical band".

Laura Taylor of Exclaim! said "similar to Opeth’s Damnation in some respects, Acoustic Verses covers more ground, perhaps in part because of the number of songwriters involved, but the album’s stylistic experimentation is very much in line with the Green Carnation’s proven pattern". 

Tracklist:

1. Sweet Leaf 04:38   
2. The Burden Is Mine... Alone 03:15   
3. Maybe? 05:02   
4. Alone 03:44  
5. 9-29-045 15:29  
6. Child's Play Part 3 03:32
7. High Tide Waves 07:49

Time:  43:29

Original Norwegian release in 2006 by Sublife. Cat.#: SUB-CD-001.

Licensed release by The End Records on January 24th, 2006 for North America.

Track 5 is split up into 3 different parts :

- My Greater Cause

- Homecoming

- House of Cards

Lyrics of the track 4.Alone are taken from a Poem by Edgar Allan Poe and are the same ARCTURUS used on the track with the same name in the "La Masquerade Infernale" album.

In some editions, they added the bonus track Six Ribbons.

Recording information:

Engineered and mixed at Brown Sound Studios, except track 4, mixed at Jailhouse Studios.

Violins, viola and cello recorded at Jailhouse Studios.

Drums recorded at Dub Studios, Kristiansand, Norway.

Mastered at Lynor.

Artwork by Jon Tønnessen