Don't Turn Away
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{{Infobox album
| name = Don't Turn Away
| type = Album
| artist = Face to Face
| cover = Don't Turn Away.jpg
| alt =
| 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
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = * Punk rock
- skate punk{{cite web |title=Face To Face - Ignorance Is Bliss - Album Review |url=https://www.audible.com/pd/Face-To-Face-Ignorance-Is-Bliss-Album-Review-Podcast/B0B4136GMP |website=Audible |publisher=Dig Me Out |access-date=June 30, 2022 |date=June 14, 2022|quote=Face To Face had established themselves over their first three albums as a skate punk band with elements of Bad Religion and Hüsker Dü.}}
| length = 37:00
| label = Dr. Strange, Fat Wreck Chords
| producer = Face to Face
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Over It
| next_year = 1994
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r176650|first=Vincent|last=Jeffries}}
| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=3 |page=357}}
}}
Don't Turn Away is the first album by the American punk rock band Face to Face.{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/part-3-1992-disconnected-1798240673|title=Part 3: 1992: "Disconnected"|website=Music}} 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."{{cite web |title=Face to Face |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/face-to-face/ |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=31 July 2020}}
Track listing
All songs by Keith, Riddle
- "You've Done Nothing" – 1:59
- "I'm Not Afraid" – 2:44
- "Disconnected" – 3:27
- "No Authority" – 2:42
- "I Want" – 3:00
- "You've Got a Problem" – 2:47
- "Everything Is Everything" – 3:08
- "I'm Trying" – 2:52
- "Pastel" – 3:13
- "Nothing New" – 3:26
- "Walk Away" – 2:09
- "Do You Care?" – 3:01
- "1,000 X" – 2:32
= Fat Wreck Chords bonus tracks (2016) =
- "Who You Are" – 1:56
- "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)
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!align="left"|Year !align="left"|Single !align="left"|Chart !align="left"|Position |
align="left"|1995
|align="left"|"Disconnected" |align="left"|Modern Rock Tracks |align="left"|39 |