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Artist: PS I Love You
Album: For Those Who Stay
Label: Paper Bag Records
Playtime: 38:42 min
Genre: Indie
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Rip date: 2014-09-02
Street date: 2014-07-22
Size: 78.51 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 270 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
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The third long-player from Kingston, Ontario's Paul Saulnier and Benjamin
Nelson, For Those Who Stay is a shimmering, cacophonous, and often glorious
mess of an album that subverts the traditional no frills/in your face rock
approach of the guitar-and-drum duo with a heady shot of spectral,
feedback-driven shoegaze and nervy post-hardcore, resulting in something akin
to a radio dial stuck between Sunny Day Real Estate and Disintegration-era
Cure. That said, for all of its textural ambiance, PS I Love You have crafted
an undeniably pop-centric slab of modern noise rock that gives a tip of the
hat to manic confectioners of the past like The Pixies, Pavement, Weezer, and
Jesus and Mary Chain, and that tour-T-shirt-and-empty-juice-box early- to
mid-'90s vibe permeates the majority of the proceedings, even when the pair
try to subvert it, as is the case on the taut and compressed, yet undeniably
ramshackle "Limestone Radio." On standout cuts like "Advice," "More of the
Same," "In My Mind at Last," and the epic title track, Saulnier and Nelson
conjure up a captivating web of sound, pairing thunderous percussion and
gossamer-like acoustic guitars with gargantuan, heavily distorted electrics,
with Saulnier channeling his inner Black Francis/Carey Mercer, pacing like a
caged animal/street preacher and waiting to see what the net brings in, but
even the more minimalist pieces, like the bucolic "Bad Brain Day" and the
cavernous "Afraid of the Light" manage to make an impression, mostly because,
like all of the songs on For Those Who Stay, they manage to keep one foot
firmly in the light and the other hoof firmly in the dark.
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01. In My Mind at Least ( 2:43)
02. Advice ( 4:50)
03. Bad Brain Day ( 2:56)
04. Limestone Radio ( 2:52)
05. For Those Who Stay ( 6:29)
06. Afraid of the Light ( 4:23)
07. Friends Forever ( 3:30)
08. More of the Same ( 5:06)
09. Hoarders ( 5:53)
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