Track listing
- 1 Apple 2:52
- 2 (Even If You Die on The) Ocean 3:18
- 3 When I Lose My Eyes 6:48
- 4 Make a Plan 4:07
- 5 Peg 1:48
- 6 Money in the Afterlife 5:25
- 7 The Americans 2:37
- 8 Edison Girls 2:46
- 9 Hands in the Snow 3:30
- 10 Come With Your Arms 4:29
- 11 Whitey Hands 2:34
- Total length: 40:14
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Cornball 'n' overwrought 60's prog pop targets, but it ends up muddling around 'n' cutely so. There are some genuine twee freakouts here, but it's so builtup as to wall me off.
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I tend to agree w/ Aksar, though less enthusiastically. This band and this album absolutely have that vaguely quantifiable "something" - the first time I listened to it, I was taken offguard (not expecting all that much); the second time I listened, I was blown away and almost lovestruck.
Six months on, the passion has cooled - I'm no longer amazed, and at my most critical it occurs to me that amazement was a lavish response. But, I still like it a LOT... and I think its curious X-Factor has to do w/ the band's simplicity and the simplicity of their music. Not to reduce the music; there is a lot going on here, a lot of different flavors and sounds... but everything is presented in a very slimmed-down, easygoing manner. This isn't a "showy" band or a band that lives and dies by its production quality - they just play catchy little songs well. And when they get slightly more complicated, the mechanics are transparent but seem effortless. Saturday Looks Good To Me make blues/folk/pop look... easy! I'm sure it's not, of course... but it feels that way. This is an easy album to get into, easy to listen to, and easy to like.
The tag is "indie pop" - that's a fair enough compromise for a sound that incorporates a lot of the paradoxical summery melancholy of Belle & Sebastian-branded twee pop ("Edison Girls") w/ some passages of more expansive and melodramatic orchestral pop ala Arcade Fire ("When I Lose My Eyes"). Then there are weird moments where I hear a disparate kind of pop altogether - the folksy, slightly goofy, but slightly sad "(Even If You Die On The) Ocean", w/ oddball counterpoint vocal parts, could be an old Moxy Fruvous album track.
And let us say nothing of "Money In The Afterlife", 5m25s of the closest recreation of pre-Eno Talking Heads (tight, untreated drums and guitars, loping and not-yet-paranoia-stricken vocals) outside of this year's Magic Bullets debut LP. Yes, let us say nothing.
Derivative? Not really. All-purpose indie pop for any and every connoisseur of that diffuse and nebulous super-genre? Very much so. This is one of those albums that I get completely perplexed by other reviewers' hatred of. I could see how you might not totally LOVE this album, but I don't understand how you would hate this album. So people like the guy who rates this "too offensive for words"... what the fuck is that guy thinking or listening to? I expect one of the following: Limp Bizkit, Fall-Out Boy, Toby Keith...? In other words, if you hate indie pop, or hate good music, then I guess you would find FILL UP THE ROOM "too offensive for words".
Otherwise, there is a lot to appreciate here. And welcome to it!
Six months on, the passion has cooled - I'm no longer amazed, and at my most critical it occurs to me that amazement was a lavish response. But, I still like it a LOT... and I think its curious X-Factor has to do w/ the band's simplicity and the simplicity of their music. Not to reduce the music; there is a lot going on here, a lot of different flavors and sounds... but everything is presented in a very slimmed-down, easygoing manner. This isn't a "showy" band or a band that lives and dies by its production quality - they just play catchy little songs well. And when they get slightly more complicated, the mechanics are transparent but seem effortless. Saturday Looks Good To Me make blues/folk/pop look... easy! I'm sure it's not, of course... but it feels that way. This is an easy album to get into, easy to listen to, and easy to like.
The tag is "indie pop" - that's a fair enough compromise for a sound that incorporates a lot of the paradoxical summery melancholy of Belle & Sebastian-branded twee pop ("Edison Girls") w/ some passages of more expansive and melodramatic orchestral pop ala Arcade Fire ("When I Lose My Eyes"). Then there are weird moments where I hear a disparate kind of pop altogether - the folksy, slightly goofy, but slightly sad "(Even If You Die On The) Ocean", w/ oddball counterpoint vocal parts, could be an old Moxy Fruvous album track.
And let us say nothing of "Money In The Afterlife", 5m25s of the closest recreation of pre-Eno Talking Heads (tight, untreated drums and guitars, loping and not-yet-paranoia-stricken vocals) outside of this year's Magic Bullets debut LP. Yes, let us say nothing.
Derivative? Not really. All-purpose indie pop for any and every connoisseur of that diffuse and nebulous super-genre? Very much so. This is one of those albums that I get completely perplexed by other reviewers' hatred of. I could see how you might not totally LOVE this album, but I don't understand how you would hate this album. So people like the guy who rates this "too offensive for words"... what the fuck is that guy thinking or listening to? I expect one of the following: Limp Bizkit, Fall-Out Boy, Toby Keith...? In other words, if you hate indie pop, or hate good music, then I guess you would find FILL UP THE ROOM "too offensive for words".
Otherwise, there is a lot to appreciate here. And welcome to it!
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this is the best record I've heard in a while. It touched
my soul. With each listen I hear more or something I
hadn't heard on my previous listen. its multi-dimensional really--that is, it offers different ways of listening
to it . I wish more records were like this.
my soul. With each listen I hear more or something I
hadn't heard on my previous listen. its multi-dimensional really--that is, it offers different ways of listening
to it . I wish more records were like this.
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