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What do you do when your best album doesn't sell? LOSE was a cracking record that bought high end production to CEG's gritty, intricate indie rock and also featured some of their best songs to date- I still play Jackson once a week on average. This of course doomed it to be ignored by everyone- perhaps understandable as it sometimes sounded a bit like a glossy high end 90s rock band singing about s***ty drug deals.
Pretty Years feels like an adjustment. It sounds almost hostile at first, as if the band have set out to make a consciously ugly sounding record- bassy, fuzzy and a bit muddy. The strings of LOSE have been replaced with a stompy saxophones, and Joseph D'Agostino mostly sings in the low growl of his register.
But underneath that, there's some of the most straightforward and heartfelt stuff this band's ever done. D'Agostino's broken with a habit of a lifetime and written a set of tunes with choruses, some of which actually feature the same words as the song title, and slowly on repeated listens the album opens up. Well, Have a Heart and Mallwalking are as good as anything the band's done before, but the whole album holds together more coherently then anything else the band's done before. Well worth checking out and then persevering with.
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Not pretty, but a keeper
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