I Can Tell You About Pain

"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]

"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)

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
[8]
SPIN The 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017
8
[9]

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. 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. 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. 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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