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JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
October 4th 2023


62511 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

leave the Dismemberment Plan's smelly college journal antics away from this pure band please

Mort.
October 4th 2023


26142 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

indeed he does sound like quite an earnest fellow, reminds me of emo in the vein of capn jazz

Mort.
October 4th 2023


26142 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

'leave the Dismemberment Plan's smelly college journal antics away from this pure band please'



isnt one of the tracks on this a mishmash of cliches



thats the definition of smelly college journal antics





JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
October 4th 2023


62511 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

if you mean You Were Right, then not really a mismatch - very clear narratorial standpoint there, those images don't sound overthought or intertextual in the way they would coming from, like, TDP or MM

that song gains rather than loses the more you take it at face value, which is another q underdiscussed thing that gave this band such an edge (in the least edgy way). so much more frank than the neurotic glib that 90s indie lives and dies for

although they also have some ace clever lyrics

Mort.
October 4th 2023


26142 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

'mismatch '



i said mishmash buddy ol pal

Mort.
October 4th 2023


26142 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

who is mm?

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
October 4th 2023


62511 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i will mash your balls. and still, those lines don't have the self-aware citational malaise that put the college in college writing (e.g. in lyricists who try to use dead metaphors as living metaphors). martsch is just taking figures of speech by their natural usage

and modest mouse (isaac brock is probs the biggest culprit in music re. that last point)

Mort.
October 4th 2023


26142 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

dont threaten me with a good time



and i have never been able to get into modest mouse, always seemed a tad too twee

Ryus
October 4th 2023


37886 Comments


have u heard lonesome crowded west? i'd call this way more twee than that

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
October 4th 2023


62511 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

there are a couple of hokey moments on LCW and (especially) Long Drive, but yh generally more on the gritty end. Moon and Antarctica was when that side took over

BaloneyPony
October 5th 2023


603 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Nothing wrong with a little twee

gabba
October 16th 2023


1703 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Gave this a few proper spins last week, and since then I can’t wake up without having either Carry the Zero or Broken Chairs going on in my head, which is great! Have checked few live versions of both tracks on youtube, but the studio versions are superior for both imo. Attending a gig would probably make a difference, though.

gabba
October 16th 2023


1703 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Twee can color the day when it comes to Belle and Sebastian or Yo La Tengo, but I can’t hear any twee in MM’s LCW. That LP’s just weird indie rock in the best possible sense.

Kompys2000
October 16th 2023


9483 Comments


I get twee for modest mouse tbh tho personally I feel like their early post-hardcore influences kind of give them an edge to hedge that with. Same deal with the like classic rock solos and stuff on built to spill

BitterJalapenoJr
Contributing Reviewer
February 28th 2024


1174 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

This is my 1300th rating on Sput and what an album it is. Addictive.

Zac124
July 12th 2024


3151 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Been digging this album a lot. Absolutely obsessed with Else and You Were Right. Just absolutely top tier alt rock tunes.

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
September 13th 2024


26759 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

ok fine carry the zero is perfect

Ryus
September 13th 2024


37886 Comments


yea

neekafat
Staff Reviewer
September 13th 2024


26759 Comments

Album Rating: 4.3

finally been listening to bands like this and pavement, obvs just incredible stuff, i can't get over how intimate and subtle their guitar melodies are

kkarron
September 13th 2024


1585 Comments


then try Treepeople, it's even better



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