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[Info]
Artist : The Posies
Album : Dear 23
Label : Omnivore Recordings
Genre : Rock
Street Date : 2018-06-29
Quality : 272 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4 -V0
Size : 311.16MB
Time : 152:12min
Url : http://tinyurl.com/ydcmfr9v
[Tracks]
Disc 1/2
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1. My Big Mouth 2:27
2. Any Other Way 4:28
3. Golden Blunders 5:15
4. You Avoid Parties 4:06
5. Apology 4:50
6. Help Yourself 4:13
7. Suddenly Mary 4:28
8. Everyone Moves Away 5:51
9. Mrs. Green 4:14
10. Flood Of Sunshine 8:25
11. My Big Mouth (Demo) 2:25
12. Golden Blunders (Demo) 4:29
13. Any Other Way (Demo) 3:49
14. Suddenly Mary (Demo) 4:01
15. Help Yourself (Demo) 4:20
16. Mrs. Green (Demo) 4:40
17. Flood Of Sunshine (Genetic Defects, Ken Edit) 3:47
Disc 2/2
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1. Apology (Jon Demo) 5:15
2. Golden Blunders (Jon Demo) 4:08
3. What Am I Supposed To Do (Demo) 3:36
4. I Don't Want To Talk To You (Jon Demo) 3:20
5. Apology (Ken Demo) 3:58
6. Thinking Outloud (Jon Demo) 5:19
7. Something That You've Never Done (Jon Demo) 3:24
8. Magnifying Mirror (Ken Demo) 3:24
9. Diary Of An Insecure Girl (Ken Demo) 4:33
10. Now They Want Your Head (Jon Demo) 3:34
11. Boy In The Plastic Bubble (Jon Demo) 3:01
12. Will You Ever Ease Your Mind (Jon Demo) 3:30
13. The Only Ones (Demo) 3:31
14. This One's Taken (Demo) 3:15
15. Saying Sorry To Myself (Demo) 3:38
16. King Midas In Reverse (John Leckie Mix) 4:36
17. Keep Me Guessing (Demo) 3:38
18. Feel 3:37
19. Spite & Malice 2:55
20. I Am The Cosmos 4:12
[Notes]
Ken Stringfellow and Jonathan Auer, the leaders of the Posies, expressed
genuine big-league pop ambitions with minor-league budgets on their early
releases, so it's not especially surprising that their first album for a
major label, Dear 23, found them laying on all the baroque textures that
they couldn't afford on their own dime. Sounding a bit like a modernized
version of the Hollies with a studio sound that crossed The White Album with
Big Star 3rd, Dear 23 kicks off with two pleasing slices of glossy power
pop, "My Big Mouth" and "Golden Blunders" (the latter of which was covered
by an actual Beatle, Ringo Starr, doubtless a major thrill for these
guys). But by the time track four rolls around ("Any Other Way"), power has
taken a cigarette break, and the album drifts into a mid-tempo dreamland
where everything is either pretty and contemplative or pretty and a bit
morose. (Though in all fairness, the rocking "Help Yourself" does pop up in
the later innings to punch things up). Dear 23 is packed with too much good
stuff to escape the notice of any true pop obsessive -- Auer and
Stringfellow write great songs, their harmonies are nothing short of superb,
and the arrangements and production (by the band in collaboration with John
Leckie) are imaginative and flawlessly executed. However, for all the craft,
there isn't a lot of passion or heart in this music; the long hours in the
studio getting the sounds right seem to have squeezed out the soul of the
music. Dear 23 offers all the proof you could ask for that the Posies were
major talents. However, it also made them sound like they weren't
especially fun to be around or compelling to hear from, and that ultimately
sinks the album.
Rap-undersound