ARTIST: Seven Mary Three
TITLE: Day&Nightdriving
LABEL: Bellum/Icon
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 172kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 44m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-02-19
RIP DATE: 2008-02-19
Track List
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1. Last Kiss 3:58
2. Laughing Out Loud 3:20
3. Was A Ghost 3:47
4. Dreaming Against Me 3:05
5. Hammer & A Stone 4:13
6. Break The Spell 3:59
7. You Think Too Much 3:45
8. Strangely At Home Here 3:46
9. She Wants Results 3:57
10. Upside Down 3:55
11. Dead Days In The Kitchen 3:54
12. Things I Stole 2:52
Release Notes:
Long out of the spotlight and too square to be considered for "That's the 90s!"
nostalgia fests, Seven Mary Three keeps rolling along, turning out albums every
few years, eventually winding their way to their sixth album, 2008's Day &
Nightdriving. Those that haven't paid attention since "Cumbersome" may be
surprised to find that the group no longer sounds like Pearl Jam (of course,
Pearl Jam doesn't quite sound like that anymore, either) - when the volume
ratchets up, there still is a bit of a groaning lurch to their rock, but this is
a warmer, mellower band, one that wears its experience well. Day & Nightdriving
is a burnished collection of country-rock stripped of alt-Americana pretensions
and rounded out by introspective rockers that belie the group's age. Seven Mary
Three is older in the best sense: they have learned songcraft and there's a
lived-in soulfulness to their performances, two crucial elements missing in
their overly earnest early records. This is an emotional progression married to
a gradual musical maturation; the group is still totally, completely children of
the 90s - they still specialize classic rock moves tempered by gliding open
chords pulled from '80s college rock - but they don't feel stuck in the past,
they feel like they're steadily working at developing their music. This can
occasionally lend their music a bit of a workmanlike feel - there's a doggedness
that keeps this earth-bound at times - but Day & Nightdriving is evidence that
Seven Mary Three is slowly, surely getting better as they're getting older.