Days of the New II by Days of the New

Days of the New II, the so-called Green album, came out on August 31, 1999, and it's Travis Meeks' second record under a name he had started as an acoustic solo project in his teens. The first lineup had split after the 1997 debut, with Jesse Vest, Todd Whitener and Matt Taul leaving to form Tantric, so this time Meeks called the shots, and he went for something far more ambitious than the grungy acoustic strum of the Yellow album. Nicole Scherzinger, years before she fronted the Pussycat Dolls, was briefly part of the band for it.

The songs are moody, sprawling and dramatic, acoustic guitars pushed into strange, sweeping corners. "Enemy" is the hit, a brooding slow burn, and "Weapon and the Wound" followed it onto the countdowns. It never sold like the debut, but critics liked it better.

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