Don't Turn Away Explained

Don't Turn Away
Type:	Album
Artist:	Face to Face
Cover:	Don't Turn Away.jpg
Released:	1992
Recorded:	October 1991 at Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California, except track 3, 4, 9 and 10 in August 1992 at Anarchy Studios in Los Angeles, California
Genre:	Punk rock skate punk^[1]
Length:	37:00
Label:	Dr. Strange, Fat Wreck Chords
Producer:	Face to Face
Next Title:	Over It
Next Year:	1994

Don't Turn Away is the first album by the American punk rock band Face to Face.^[2] It was released in 1992 under the label Dr. Strange Records, and was considered a strong debut for the band. It was re-released a year later on Fat Wreck Chords.

Two years later, "Disconnected," the album's third track, was re-recorded for the band's second album Big Choice. Their then-label A&M Records wanted the band to re-record it, because no one could "hear a single" until the L.A. radio station KROQ first played it.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "a stirring and exciting debut undercut only slightly by its overt stylistic debt to Hüsker Dü and Social Distortion."^[3]

Track listing

All songs by Keith, Riddle

1. "You've Done Nothing" – 1:59
2. "I'm Not Afraid" – 2:44
3. "Disconnected" – 3:27
4. "No Authority" – 2:42
5. "I Want" – 3:00
6. "You've Got a Problem" – 2:47
7. "Everything Is Everything" – 3:08
8. "I'm Trying" – 2:52
9. "Pastel" – 3:13
10. "Nothing New" – 3:26
11. "Walk Away" – 2:09
12. "Do You Care?" – 3:01
13. "1,000 X" – 2:32

Fat Wreck Chords bonus tracks (2016)

14. "Who You Are" – 1:56
15. "Don’t Turn Away" – 2:47

Personnel

• Face To Face - producer
• Trever Keith - guitar, vocals
• Matt Riddle - bass, Backup vocals
• Rob Kurth - drums

Technical personnel

• Jim Goodwin - engineer
• Donnell Cameron - engineer
• John Golden - mastering
• Mike Brooling - sequencing

Charts

Singles - Billboard (United States)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Face To Face - Ignorance Is Bliss - Album Review . Audible . Dig Me Out . June 30, 2022 . June 14, 2022. Face To Face had established themselves over their first three albums as a skate punk band with elements of Bad Religion and Hüsker Dü..
2. Web site: Part 3: 1992: “Disconnected”. Music.
3. Web site: Face to Face . Trouser Press . 31 July 2020.