Artist: Jesse Malin
Album: Outsiders
Bitrate: 250kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: One Little Indian
Genre: Rock
Size: 75.58 megs
PlayTime: 0h 40min 00sec total
Rip Date: 2015-11-07
Store Date: 2015-10-16
Track List:
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01. Outsiders 2:46
02. San Fransisco 3:48
03. Here's The Situation 2:59
04. Society Sally 3:29
05. Edward Hopper (Somewhere In The 3:50
Night)
06. Whitestone City Limits 3:12
07. Stay Free 3:27
08. The Hustlers 3:05
09. All Bets Are Off 3:22
10. In The Summer 3:52
11. You Know It's Dark When 6:10
Atheists Start To Pray
Release Notes:
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The normally prolific Jesse Malin spent five years preoccupied with solo touring
and reuniting his punk band D Generation between 2010's Love It to Life and
2015's New York Before the War, and it seems telling that his next album,
Outsiders, arrived in October 2015, a mere seven months after New York Before
the War. Outsiders hardly sounds hurried or tossed off, and the production by
Don DiLego effectively fuses rock & roll attitude with big-city polish, but in
spite of all this the album sounds a good bit more spontaneous than New York
Before the War, and there's a natural grit and rumble to this music that gives
it a stronger rock & roll feel that many of Malin's solo efforts. His thoughtful
side is very much in evidence on these tunes, but the accumulated details of
"Here's the Situation" and "Whitestone City Limits" allow him to sound poetic
while the guitars and drums kick hard, and "The Hustlers" and "Society Sally"
use their horn-augmented arrangements to create an evocative sound that recalls
the '70s in a way that works. Many of Malin's solo efforts have found him
wearing his heart on his sleeve, but the most outwardly sentimental moments here
come in his acoustic cover of the Clash's "Stay Free," and he manages to bring
something fresh to the song that's sweet but stings along the edges. Closing
number "You Know It's Dark When Atheists Start to Pray" is a big, musical shaggy
dog story that weaves its way down any number of alleys and side streets for six
minutes without losing its charm (and generally holding on to the point). 2015
has been a good year for Jesse Malin, and any man who can release two albums as
strong and distinctive as New York Before the War and Outsiders in considerably
less than 12 months has earned the right to wait a good year-and-a-half before
delivering his next set.