Jeff

Look I'm not saying I'm the President of the Chris Farren Enjoyers Club, but I am certainly an elected official of some kind.

I was really scared at first about what this was going to sound like based on his previous album (instrumental-only fake movie soundtrack), moving to a permanent full band, and the first single (which sounded too much like the usual contemporary indie rock that takes way too many cues from 90's alt rock for my liking).

But goddamn if Statue Song isn't an all-time great song. It's the other side of the Phil Collins coin with Mk.Gee - a song that leans into the earnestness of that style of 80's pop without ever crossing the line… More

This might be my favorite album this year?

Switches between intimate/quiet and epic/loud with incredible ease, walks that fine line that "emo" walks between earnest and cloying incredibly well, and they put on a hell of a live show.

Wish they'd stop opening for Tiktok famous bands that sound like what milquetoast Zoomers think "indie" music sounded like (e.g. MGMT but as the background music in a plaque psoriasis commercial) and headline their own shit because they'd set the world on fire (metaphorically).