The Austin, Texas four-piece Gentlemen Rogues know how to navigate around a punk, indie-rock and power-pop tune, and this LP combines plenty of that as they slap a pair of remixed and remastered EPs together to form a full album and toss in three bonus tracks, too. <\/p>\n
\u201cYour Armageddon\u201d starts the listening with a swirling mix of post-punk meets modern indie-rock, where the bass acrobatics are quite mesmerizing and complement the soaring, melodic singing. \u201cEmpathy For The Devil\u201d follows with a punchy delivery that touches on garage-rock, and \u201cMocking Love Out Of Nothing At All\u201d continues the energy with plenty of tuneful grit that sounds right at home on the Merge Records catalog during its heyday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThin As Thieves\u201d and \u201cCap In Hand\u201d exit side A, where the former hits a little harder with firm drumming in its driving nature, while the latter jangles a bit in a calmer delivery of dreamy songcraft.<\/p>\n
The back half of the record leads with the shimmering guitar and pounding drums of the angular \u201cPact And Ready To Go,\u201d and \u201cC\u2019mon, Release Me\u201d follows with a bright power-pop-meets-punk-rock album highlight that’s soaked in rugged harmony. The final pair of tracks on the physical release don\u2019t disappoint either, where \u201cBlack Film\u201d showcases the detailed rhythm section alongside the sing-along qualities, and \u201cStrawberry Moon\u201d exits the formal listen with plenty of \u201990s alt-rock ideas in the balance of power and melody.<\/p>\n
Of the three bonus tracks (the LP download card includes them), Morrissey\u2019s \u201cLast Of The Famous International Playboys\u201d is particularly noteworthy and puts a crunchy, punk spin on the classic, and might be one of the best covers related to The Smiths in recent history.<\/p>\n
If records like Sugar\u2019s Copper Blue<\/i>, Teenage Fanclub\u2019s Bandwagonesque <\/i>and Nada Surf\u2019s High\/Low <\/i>are in your collection,\u00a0 you really need to hear A History Of Fatalism<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10807],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46526","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-gentlemen-rogues","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46526"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}