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- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Merge Records
N.C. group go new wave.
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We Say...
The first two records from North Carolina group the Rosebuds were long on rustic charm and folky rambunctiousness, so it's a bit alarming to hear white-hot keyboards shoot up the center of "Cemetery Lawns." New wave reinventions are about three years past prime, which makes this kind of unapologetic neon-ization a bit of a risk. Night of the Furies is jittery and juiced-up, the moment when the Rosebuds edge nervously away from the wall and over to the dancefloor.
What remains unchanged is the group's knack for sunny melodies. Even when they're lit up with synth blips and powered by a drum machine pulse, the songs still find room for those huge, swooping choruses. Which is lucky, because it would have been easier to sink the tunes and re-work the whole framework from scratch. Their partial reconstruction works in their favor. Even if the transformation is a curious one, the Rosebuds still have the clean, easy glide of "Hold On to This Coat" to fall back on.
Occasionally, though, it seems the Rosebuds doth protest too much; parts of Furies are so glitzy and gussied up that they feel artificial, the high school mathlete trying to pass himself off as the college campus king. The best moments are the ones where the Rosebuds' twin identities fuse, like during the "whoah, whoah" chorus of "I'd Better Run" or the moment near the end of "Silja Line," when a ghost choir shows up to sing the song to its finale.
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| 01. |  |
My Punishment For Fighting |
5:11 |
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| 02. | |
Cemetery Lawn |
3:31 |
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| 03. | |
I Better Run |
3:49 |
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| 04. | |
Get Up Get Out |
4:07 |
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| 05. | |
Silence By the Lakeide |
4:49 |
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| 06. | |
Hold On to This Coat |
4:14 |
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| 07. | |
Silja Line |
3:38 |
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| 08. | |
When the Lights Went Dim |
2:51 |
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| 09. | |
Night of The Furies |
6:20 |
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09 Total Tracks, 38:30 Total Length
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