The Great Filter is the title of Chicago band Tub Ring

Tub Ring

-Biography:Tub Ring formed in 1992 as a high school punk band.The band really took form with addition of keyboard player Rob Kleiner, who spent his teenage years following around the band Mr. Bungle. With Kleiner added to the band, Tub Ring adopted the similar sounds of Mr. Bungle. Mr...

's 2007 release, and their debut on The End Records

The End Records

The End Records is an independent record label, founded in 1998 in San Diego. Founder Andreas Katsambas initially wanted to bring attention to some underground bands he admired. In 2002, The End moved to Salt Lake City, when his wife took a job at the University of Utah. The label moved...

. The CD was released on May 1, 2007, with advance copies available at the release party (along with a unique Tub Ring/3-2-1 Activate! split CD, called Alter Egos) on April 27, 2007. The album keeps up the tradition of the past 3 Tub Ring albums in that it contains a SETI reference in the title (see The Great Filter

The Great Filter

The Great Filter, in the context of the Fermi paradox, is whatever prevents "dead matter" from giving rise, in time, to "expanding lasting life"...

), and contains a "Robot

Robot

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" track.

Track listing

1. "Friends and Enemies" – 3:27
2. "The Charismatic Smile" – 2:59
3. "Seven Exodus" – 2:52
4. "Get Help (Now!)" – 2:35
5. "When the Crash Happened" – 2:32
6. "Killers in Love" – 4:13
7. "No One Wants to Play" – 4:23
8. "Requiem for a Robot" – 0:38
9. "Life in Transition" – 3:25
10. "Glass Companion" – 3:20
11. "Making No Sound (At All)" – 3:14
12. "The Truth" – 2:10
13. "Wrong Kind of Message" – 4:19
14. "My Job Here is Done" – 3:16

Non-album tracks

• "Dynamite" – 3:15 3-2-1 Activate! cover (iTunes
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   exclusive track)
• "This is the Sound" – 2:32 (included on Alter Egos)
• "Touch" – 3:06 (included on Alter Egos)
• "Rock Your Body
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  " – 2:51 Justin Timberlake
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   cover (as yet unreleased, was available on their MySpace
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   page for one day preceding the album's release)
• "The Uninitiated" – 2:01 Rob Kleiner cover (available via a URL given in the album's liner notes)
• "Heathens" – 2:44 (available via a URL given in the album's liner notes)

Personnel

• Kevin Gibson – Vocals
• Rob Kleiner – Keyboards
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  , Producer
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• Trevor Erb – Bass guitar
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• Chris Wiken – Drums
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• Jeff Enokian – Guitar
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• Dave Smith – Saxophone
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• Dave Winer – Trumpet
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• David Keller – Cello
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• Charles Crepeau – Violin
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• Roxanne Hegyesy – Vocals
• Sara Sleeper – Vocals
• Neal Ostrovsky – Producer, Engineer, Additional Samples
• Tanner Woodford – Art Direction, Design
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External links

• The Great Shift – The "path" given in the liner notes, containing two B-sides in .mp3 format.