AH SHIT People MisterWives have a full length album out and
I feel it to be my contractual obligation to give you guy’s a review so let’s
quit bullshitting ya and get to telling you about this…
Some quick background for those who don’t know or haven’t
read some of my concert reviews MisterWives are an alternative rock group from
New York who have been spending the past year touring with various acts such as
Bleachers, 21 Pilots, and American Authors and over the past year they’ve been gaining
a lot of traction through their very jubilant and bright single Reflections
which has gotten a hell of a lot of radio rotations here in the Kansas City
area and even some national attention through some use in some random MTV show’s
I don’t actually watch and with that about a year since forming and since the release
of their first EP they’ve managed to release a studio album proper named after
their first single from the album, “Our Own House,” which also serves as the
first track of this album.
Of the previous EP of kind of bright but scattered poppy
numbers almost all of them minus Twisted Tongue and Kings and Queens were
included on this album and that kind of upsets me a tiny bit because Twisted
Tongue was my favorite but that’s irrelevant because I figure Our Own House is
a good replacement for that tune because it’s just as bright and poppy a number
with a killer chorus in its own right and a complete lack of obscenities which
probably helps them maintain this kind of radio friendly sound that is very apparent
on this album which kind of screams a summer time album with its bright horn
filled instrumentals and kind of clap along pace that many of the songs
represent.
As I find myself giving this album a listen to review it I’m
noticing a very heavy kind of Ska Influence in the tracks which is rather nice
in most of these tracks but then you’ll eventually notice that a lot of these
tracks also kind of sound the same because of that which isn’t really a
terrible thing because the large amounts of bright kind of poppy chorus’ is
this bands bread and butter and the fact that the majority of the tunes on it
are those kind of songs gives this album a sound that kind of makes you want to
go on a road trip or something with your windows down and this album blasting
and not too much else.
Overall what I’m getting listening to this album is a pop
group making a Ska record that will be on plenty of peoples list during those
hot summer months whenever we’re all in need of real bangers and it really does
make this collection of songs really solid at best it’s not the most amazing
record of all time but it’s something that you can’t help but enjoy and have
fun listening to because it’s a really good representation of their live show
which is still bounds better than their studio outputs but even with that in
mind as solidly good as this album is that means their live show is pretty
freaking great.
7/10
Hits: Reflections, Our Own House, Hurricane, and Box around
the Sun
Misses: Coffins, Queens
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