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Eyes & Nines

album by Trash Talk

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ5422788 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eyes & Nines is the third studio album by American hardcore punk band Trash Talk. It was released on May 18, 2010 digitally and June 8, 2010 on CD/LP by the band's own record label Trash Talk Collective.

Background and release

On February 3 they stated on their blog 'Manifest Destination' that they had been hard at work writing and recording the album 'Eyes & Nines'. The album was available for preorder, and those who did so received a digital copy of the single 'Explode' and the music video for the single instantly.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Eyes & Nines” is album by Trash Talk. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Eyes, Nines and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Eyes, Nines and album is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by Trash Talk” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5422788. The first chronological checks are 2010.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Eyes & Nines”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Eyes & Nines primary sources, Eyes & Nines archive and Eyes research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eyes & Nines” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.