Tag: Misery

• Matt Maltese: Bad Contestant

  He’s got an unusual name, and this is an unusual album, somewhere between Frank Sinatra and Stephin Merritt, of The Magnetic Fields fame; his approach is also like Squeeze, slightly lugubrious pop with lyrics that tell stories. You could cite Morrissey, too, or The Divine Comedy. Maltese talks about life with a perennial hangdog expression, […]

  jerobear

  July 23, 2018

  Pop rock

  As the World Caves In, Bad Contestant, baroque, Blues, brother, CDs, Chronicle Series, Classical, Congleton Chronicle, Divine Comedy, early, Frank Sinatra, funk, Greatest Comedian, Guilty, jazz, Less and Less, Like A Fish, Matt Maltese, Misery, Morrissey, Mortals, music, Nightclub Love, pop, Reggae, Review Corner, reviews, rock, soul, Squeeze, Stephin Merritt, Strange Time, Sweet 16, The Magnetic Fields

• Creeper: Eternity, In Your Arms

  For some reason, were we expecting swampy goth rock from this but it’s mostly punk, in some parts the rapid snare/kick drum punk of bands like NOFX (though there is no band like NOFX, of course), as well as that shouted call/more melodic response thing that punks do. Elsewhere it’s somewhere between AFI/Alkaline Trio/Blink 182, […]

  jerobear

  May 31, 2017

  Pop rock, Punk

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