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- Date Released: October 5, 2009
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Label: Matador
These reunited Boston legends somehow keep getting stronger and better
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We Say...
The reunited lineup of Boston legends Mission of Burma has now been together longer than their original incarnation, and they're — improbably — still getting tighter, heavier and more forceful. "1, 2, 3, Partyy!" is not a song title you'd expect from gentlemen in their 50s, and neither are its jagged granite riffs or 2:46 running time. (Its climactic allusion to the Syndicate of Sound's garage-rock nugget "Little Girl" — well, maybe.) But that's Burma: a leaderless attack unit with three songwriter/singers who love to switch off figure and ground between them. Their power comes from their internal chemistry, and the longer they play together, the mightier they become. There aren't many formal changes in direction on their fourth official studio album, aside from the off-kilter wash of organ that grounds "SSL 83"; everything's still pretty much built around Roger Miller's barbed clusters of guitar noise, Peter Prescott howling and battering his drums, Clint Conley's elliptical hooks and pyrotechnical bass, and the unmistakable patina of texture that comes from Bob Weston's backwards-and-forwards tape loops. But they're contributing their wildest ideas to each other's songs more than ever, from the instrumental freakout in Prescott's spasmodic "One Day We Will Live There" to the gauzy group harmonies that transform the merciless advance of "Slow Faucet" into a glittering sledgehammer.
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| 01. |  |
1, 2, 3, Partyy! |
2:47 |
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| 02. | |
Possession |
4:28 |
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| 03. | |
Blunder |
3:40 |
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| 04. | |
Forget Yourself |
4:53 |
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| 05. | |
After The Rain |
3:22 |
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| 06. | |
SSL 83 |
2:50 |
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| 07. | |
One Day We Will Live There |
2:44 |
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| 08. | |
So Fuck It |
2:47 |
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| 09. | |
Feed |
3:49 |
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| 10. | |
Good Cheer |
2:46 |
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| 11. | |
Comes Undone |
3:08 |
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| 12. | |
Slow Faucet |
4:28 |
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12 Total Tracks, 41:42 Total Length
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