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Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired by Joyce Manor (CD, 2012)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelPink Mist

UPC5060243320520

eBay Product ID (ePID)4050180410

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2012

GenreRock

ArtistJoyce Manor

Release TitleOf All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

ReviewsAlternative Press (p.79) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "They both expand the current boundaries of their internet-chosen subgenre and push themselves into completely new sonic territory." Kerrang (Magazine) (p.54) - "[I]ncredibly hard to categorise, a catchy, ramshackle mess of punk and indie rock....It's an utterly loveable album..."

Additional informationJoyce Manor's Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired is a short, noisy blast of emo pop that has none of the glitzy trappings of capital "P" emo pop, but instead sounds a bit like how Weezer might have turned out if they had a recording budget of about ten dollars and never left their parents' basement. Or if Guided by Voices never discovered beer and instead sat around deconstructing Hüsker Dü and Jawbreaker albums all night long. The songs are intensely hooky with tons of emoting packed into a tiny space; Barry Johnson's quavering voice bleeds around the sharp edges and slashing guitars like fat drops of blood. The bulk of the album -- "These Kind of Ice Skates," "Comfortable Clothes," "See How Tame I Can Be," "Violent Inside," the should-be hit single "Video Killed the Radio Star" that borrows from the Buggles' song of the same name but does something new and thrilling with it -- is first-rate power pop that ends abruptly, but perfectly, delivering exactly the right amount of emotional jolt. Elsewhere, the jangling "Bride of Usher" has some nicely jangling Smiths' overtones and the group shows they aren't afraid to experiment a little, adding some plinky piano to the thrashing "If I Needed You There," or going completely lo-fi and acoustic on "Drainage" and "I'm Always Tired." And that's it. Nine songs. Thirteen minutes. All glory, no boredom. If only more bands knew how to strip their albums down to the bare essentials, and could deliver said essentials with as much abandon and valor as Joyce Manor does here. ~ Tim Sendra