Worse for the Wear

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 32:22

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Very Good

Steve.Grimm

This album is great, but I only care for a couple of the songs. The over Albums are unfortuetly not my taste, which was disappointing. This album is the only one I care for.

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Good Record... TWO AWESOME SINGLES!

D3

If your looking for the toned down, acoustic model New Amsterdams, look elsewhere. This is a good collection featuring solid production and hooks a-plenty. If you're low on downloads, grab 'The Spoils of the Spoiled' and 'Hover Near Fame.' These two tracks are among the best pop songs I have ever heard (with strong, acidic lyrics to boot).

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Warning - you might not be able to stop listening

musicmoggy

You found it! It’s a joy. It’s a discovery. It’s a gem. A consistent catchy collection of true Indie songs delivered with above average professionalism and musicianship. Withstands the listen-five-times test – I’ve heard this over 12 times and just want more. Controlled vocals and varied instrumentation and tempo. Some fine acoustic but the banjo leads the fast Asleep At the Wheel, a piano dominates on From California which interludes with some interesting percussion. Handing on For Hope blends in a subtle organ weave. The production quality is first rate but without the gimmicks of over crafting. There is not one song on this album that I’m inclined to skip. With whom might they be compared? Difficult! John Lennon? Most memorable tracks are All our Vice, Hover Near Fame, and Spoils of the Spoiled. No, the artist did not pay me to write this review. Quality like this deserves comment.

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The third album by Matthew Pryor’s Get Up Kids’ side project, the New Amsterdams, splits the difference between the full-band Never You Mind, and the entirely solo Para Toda Vida, returning the rhythm section of the former, while keeping the largely acoustic focus of the latter. With its touches of banjo, flashes of wry humor, and more sprightly tempos — all attributes heard to good effect on the sardonic road diary “Asleep at the Wheel” — Worse for the Wear is the most relaxed-sounding and brightest New Amsterdams record yet, and with songs as catchy as “The Spoils of the Spoiled,” and the oddly ’70s rock piano-based tune, “From California,” the New Amsterdams are in danger of taking over from the Get Up Kids as Pryor’s most interesting and memorable band. – Stewart Mason

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