Suspension of Disbelief (Argyle Park album)
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Suspension of Disbelief was the lone AP2 release, put out by Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records
Tooth & Nail Records is a record label founded by Brandon Ebel in the U.S. state of California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington, where it is situated today...

 in 2000. AP2 was a sequel of sorts to the band Argyle Park, who released their only album Misguided
Misguided
Misguided is Argyle Park's first and only album under that name. The album was released by R.E.X. Records into the Christian rock market, and sits alongside other early 90s work by Circle of Dust and Mortal as being instrumental in introducing industrial music to the Christian music scene.Misguided...

 in 1995. Argyle Park had consisted of Buka and Klayton
Klayton
Scott Albert, now known as Klayton, is a multi-instrumentalist musician formerly of New York City and currently of Detroit, Michigan who has led several cult status underground bands and has performed under a variety of stage names since the early 1990s...

, while AP2 featured primary players Buka and Level
LVL (band)
lvl is both the solo music project and personal moniker for New York City musician Dan Levler. lvl was formerly called Level but changed the name to avoid confusion with a handful of other bands with the same name. lvl's musical output ranges from fast-paced industrial metal to mellow electronica...

, with Klayton producing the record. In the winter of 2000, Tooth & Nail cut AP2 due to the low sales of this album. Since Buka had only wanted AP2 to release albums for Tooth & Nail, AP2 ended as a band after Tooth & Nail dropped them. http://www.nyposse.net/main.php?section=extra&band=ap2

Suspension of Disbelief was every bit as experimental as its precursor, including elements of gabber techno
Gabber
Gabber , is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Gabber" is a slang word of Yiddish origin that means "mate", "buddy" or "friend"....

, pop dance, drum'n'bass, R&B, punk rock, and metal. The opening track, "The End", contains vocal samples from two of the old Argyle Park songs, giving the album some sense of closure to that era of the band before diving headlong into the new material.

Track listing

  1. "The End" (Level, Buka) – 4:40
    • samples: "Leave Me Alone" and "A Burden's Folly" by Argyle Park
  2. "Heroin Hate" (Level, Buka) – 5:32
  3. "My Sympathies" (Klayton, Mark Salomon, Buka, Level) – 5:26
    • guest vocals: Mark Salomon, Klayton
  4. "A Thousand Terrible Things" (Level, Buka) – 2:26
  5. "Silhouette of Rage" (Level, Buka) – 3:58
    • guest vocals: Daren "Klank" Diolosa
  6. "A New Wound"(Level) – 5:54
  7. "The Red Shirt Conspiracy" (Level, Buka, Joel Timothy Bell) – 2:36
    • guest vocals: Joel Timothy Bell
  8. "The Pact" (Level, Buka) – 5:05
    • vocals: Sage
  9. "Resurrection of the Ravens" (Klayton, Level) – 4:14
    • guest vocals: Klayton
  10. "Goodbye" (Level) – 4:46
  11. "The Only Man I Know" (Level) – 4:22
    • drums: J.M. Zaletel
  12. "Cold Breath Of Sorrow" (Level, Buka) – 1:32

Guest appearances

  • Klayton
    Klayton
    Scott Albert, now known as Klayton, is a multi-instrumentalist musician formerly of New York City and currently of Detroit, Michigan who has led several cult status underground bands and has performed under a variety of stage names since the early 1990s...

     – producer of album and writer of songs "My Sympathies" and "Resurrection of the Ravens"
  • Daren "Klank
    Klank
    Klank is the nickname for New York City-based musician Daren Diolosa and the name of Diolosa's band. Diolosa formed Klank in the mid 90's when he was a member of industrial metal band Circle of Dust, for whom Klank was a guitarist...

    " Diolosa
  • Mark Salomon
    Mark Salomon
    Mark Salomon is an American singer and author best known as the lead singer of the hard rock bands Stavesacre and The Crucified. Other bands in which he has been a key member include the punk rock Outer Circle and rap-oriented Native Son and is rumored to be one of the voices of Neon Horse, though...

     of Stavesacre
    Stavesacre
    Stavesacre was an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California formed in 1995. The band was composed of vocalist Mark Salomon, guitarists Jeff Bellew and Ryan Dennee, bassist Dirk Lemmenes and drummer Sam West....

  • Joel Timothy Bell of Ghoti Hook
    Ghoti Hook
    Ghoti Hook was a pop punk band from Fairfax, Virginia. The band formed in 1991, signed to Tooth & Nail Records in 1996, and disbanded in 2002.-History:...

  • Sage
  • J.M. Zaletel of Klank
    Klank
    Klank is the nickname for New York City-based musician Daren Diolosa and the name of Diolosa's band. Diolosa formed Klank in the mid 90's when he was a member of industrial metal band Circle of Dust, for whom Klank was a guitarist...

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