Julia Conny
11/12/08, 05:29 PM
All Get Out - All Get Out
Release Date: November 25th, 2008
Record Label: Favorite Gentlemen Recordings
All Get Out, a South Carolina four-piece, have found a home in Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, a label run by members of Manchester Orchestra. This release, self-titled, is five tracks from the band's 2007 The Spitting EP, remixed by Matt Malpass, and two new jams. But as this album keeps playing and the new songs become more integrated into vibes of the old songs, the distinction is lost. New and old create a whole, and for anyone who's hearing All Get Out for the first time, it's seven tracks of totally earnest and sometimes reckless indie rock.
But most importantly, the band keeps to what they do best: harmonies and intrusive choruses. Riffs come in scratchy and carefree. Singer Nate Hussey is sometimes smooth and sometimes nasally but always down-to-earth. With charm from the beginning of new and first track "Coach Connor", the band introduces their signature guitar tones. The headstrong strumming on "Come My Way" or the blaring hook on "Water and God" mismatch with Hussey's quaint lyrical matter, but the point here is what the lyrics lack in grit and that special connection, well, whatever. It doesn't matter. You're too distracted by the wa-wa-wailing on the dive-bar swagger of "The E.C.", anyway.
All of this is noted before ender "Three More, I Guess", of course, as to not dilute the band's go at slowing it down; the somber piano ballad should be appreciated in a quiet nook and not at everyone's favorite local rock club (you know, the one with the upstairs drink specials). Hussey begins in front of simple and gorgeous echoing notes. His gentle whisper is doleful. "I laugh out loud but nothing's funny at all", Hussey cries along with Chelsea Logue on guest vocals. We've gone from booming, upbeat choruses to a scraping-the-bottom carol.
The biggest qualm for an already-fan would be the minimum of new material, because two tracks doesn't cut it. A full-length is overdue; the band proved they know the chops of good indie rock on The Spitting EP, but proof that the band can utilize all the beauties, decisions and finer details of a whole record would seal the deal.
All Get Out isn't sleek. The transitions aren't smooth either. Brash decisions that almost always end up clever and catchy. Instead of an indie rock band that maps undisturbed and peaceful lines, All Get Out's got meaty cuts that flourish under dingy stage lights. But we want new bulbs and maybe an upgraded stage. We'd be OK with this.
Manchester Orchestra, Pixies, Modest MouseAP.net Profile (http://www.absolutepunk.net/allgetout) | Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/loudasallgetout) | Favorite Gentlemen (http://www.favoritegentlemen.com)1. Coach Connor
2. Come My Way
3. Water and God
4. Like a Child
5. The E.C.
6. Wasting All My Breath
7. Three More, I Guess
Release Date: November 25th, 2008
Record Label: Favorite Gentlemen Recordings
All Get Out, a South Carolina four-piece, have found a home in Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, a label run by members of Manchester Orchestra. This release, self-titled, is five tracks from the band's 2007 The Spitting EP, remixed by Matt Malpass, and two new jams. But as this album keeps playing and the new songs become more integrated into vibes of the old songs, the distinction is lost. New and old create a whole, and for anyone who's hearing All Get Out for the first time, it's seven tracks of totally earnest and sometimes reckless indie rock.
But most importantly, the band keeps to what they do best: harmonies and intrusive choruses. Riffs come in scratchy and carefree. Singer Nate Hussey is sometimes smooth and sometimes nasally but always down-to-earth. With charm from the beginning of new and first track "Coach Connor", the band introduces their signature guitar tones. The headstrong strumming on "Come My Way" or the blaring hook on "Water and God" mismatch with Hussey's quaint lyrical matter, but the point here is what the lyrics lack in grit and that special connection, well, whatever. It doesn't matter. You're too distracted by the wa-wa-wailing on the dive-bar swagger of "The E.C.", anyway.
All of this is noted before ender "Three More, I Guess", of course, as to not dilute the band's go at slowing it down; the somber piano ballad should be appreciated in a quiet nook and not at everyone's favorite local rock club (you know, the one with the upstairs drink specials). Hussey begins in front of simple and gorgeous echoing notes. His gentle whisper is doleful. "I laugh out loud but nothing's funny at all", Hussey cries along with Chelsea Logue on guest vocals. We've gone from booming, upbeat choruses to a scraping-the-bottom carol.
The biggest qualm for an already-fan would be the minimum of new material, because two tracks doesn't cut it. A full-length is overdue; the band proved they know the chops of good indie rock on The Spitting EP, but proof that the band can utilize all the beauties, decisions and finer details of a whole record would seal the deal.
All Get Out isn't sleek. The transitions aren't smooth either. Brash decisions that almost always end up clever and catchy. Instead of an indie rock band that maps undisturbed and peaceful lines, All Get Out's got meaty cuts that flourish under dingy stage lights. But we want new bulbs and maybe an upgraded stage. We'd be OK with this.
Manchester Orchestra, Pixies, Modest MouseAP.net Profile (http://www.absolutepunk.net/allgetout) | Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/loudasallgetout) | Favorite Gentlemen (http://www.favoritegentlemen.com)1. Coach Connor
2. Come My Way
3. Water and God
4. Like a Child
5. The E.C.
6. Wasting All My Breath
7. Three More, I Guess