artist : Hunters, Run!
title : Forgotten Souvenirs Of The Modern Age
date : 2008
label : Battle Standard
genre : Rock
cat# : n/a
release date: 02.03.2008
street date : 01.22.2008
tracks : 09
bitrate : avg. 210kbps
size : 64,6 MB
source : CDDA
type : Album
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The second album by Brooklyn indie rockers Hunters, Run!
buries a number of genuinely interesting musical ideas under
a sheen of affected hipsterism. Listened to casually,
Forgotten Souvenirs of the Modern Age sounds way too much
like just another batch of overeducated kids playing with
ProTools in a Williamsburg loft, a first impression that
isn't helped at all by the album's flat, affectless
production. Fight past the bland too cool for schoolness,
however, and singer/songwriter Larry Hess proves to have a
more interesting set of influences than many of his
contemporaries -- the melodic complexity of prime XTC circa
Black Sea and English Settlement and late-era Hⁿsker Dⁿ and
Replacements, when Bob Mould and Paul Westerberg were
unpeeling emotional truths behind their wall of feedback, for
starters -- and is able to transform those into a batch of
varied and tuneful songs with wittily evocative lyrics.
Highlights include the title track, the album's most
instantly memorable tune, and the Feelies-like jangle and
swoon of "Union, CT," as well as the atmospheric darkness of
the skeletal closer, "It Was Then That I Realized Even This
Would End." Forgotten Souvenirs of the Modern Age does take
several listens to decode, but the rewards are worth the
effort.
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01-Apollo & Daphne 04:23
02-Forgotten Souvenirs Of The Modern Age 04:47
03-War During Lifetime 03:02
04-It's Gonna Be A Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark Night 04:15
05-Check The Jacket And Shoes 06:02
06-Union, CT 04:54
07-Shake What God Gave Ya 03:53
08-Manly Art, The 03:57
09-It Was Then I Realized That Even This Would End 06:29
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41:42 min