if_then_else

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if_then_else
Studio album by The Gathering
Released	July 25, 2000
Recorded	January to March 2000
Genre	Trip rock
Length	52:46
Label	Century Media
Producer	The Gathering; co-produced by Zlaya Hadzich
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
The Gathering chronology
How To Measure A Planet? (1998) if_then_else (2000) Black Light District (2002)

if_then_else is an album by the Dutch alternative rock band The Gathering. The album furthered the band's shift from metal to progressive/experimental rock textures. It was released in Europe in 2000 by Century Media Records. It was recorded at the Koeienverhuurbedrijf studio in Purmerend, and at S & K Studio, in Doetinchem.

Its title combines two frequently used computer programming notations:

• The if, then, else conditional statement
• The use of all lowercase, underscore-separated words

[edit] Track listing

1. "Rollercoaster" – 4:45
2. "Shot to Pieces" – 4:10
3. "Amity" – 5:57
4. "Bad Movie Scene" – 3:49
5. "Colorado Incident" – 4:53
6. "Beautiful War" – 2:32
7. "Analog Park" – 6:05
8. "Herbal Movement" – 4:10
9. "Saturnine" – 5:11
10. "Morphia's Waltz" – 6:37
11. "Pathfinder" – 4:38

[edit] Miscellanea

• "Colorado Incident" is about a real-life experience of having to cancel a gig in Colorado due to overbooking, exhaustion and the band being sick from a cold. Fans were frustrated, and the band was later very apologetic about this "incident" ^[1]. (It is apparently not about the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, as often speculated.)
• An excerpt of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is used between "Analog Park" and "Herbal Movement".

[edit] Notes