Album A Day – Evanescence – Origin

Artist: Evanescence
Album: Origin
Release Date: November 4, 2000

There’s one critical difference between the Evanescence on this album and their major label debut Fallen, released in 2003. On this album co-songwriter and guitarist Ben Moody is featured rather prominently. In addition to helping write a significant amount of the music on Origin, Moody is also heard on Origin beyond his power-chord laden guitar. Moody provides harmony and back vocals on several songs, most prominently on “Where Will You Go”. On Fallen, Moody’s vocal presence is noticeably replaced by an overdubbed Amy Lee. Such is a pretty basic example of how Evanescence stopped being a band effort and became a moniker for what might as well be an Amy Lee solo project.

Origin lacks the production shine that Fallen has, for obvious reasons. But this raw sound helps Evanescence in a few spots. The older cut of “My Immortal”, one of the band’s greatest hits, sounds even more haunting and pained on this album than it does in later iterations. The surreal, sample-heavy songs like “Even In Death” bear a disturbing, downnright spooky attitude about them, something sadly missing from later records. The writing isn’t quite as powerful or memorable on this debut, but it serves well, and still sounds more or less like Evanescence across all their music. On the whole, Origin is a good bootleg to pick up for the hardcore Evanescence fans that want the complete catalog, but there’s little else to warrant owning this collection.

Evanescence – Where Will You Go (YSI)

==TJ==

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