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- Date Released: March 4, 2008
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Commercial Alternative
- Label: Barsuk Records
This Austin quintet confounds alt-country expectations with mordant wit
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Between the heritage of What Made Milwaukee Famous' hometown (Austin, Texas) and the name they've chosen (after Glenn Sutton's immortal tears-in-my-beer country lament, recorded by Rod Stewart and Jerry Lee Lewis, among others), one might approach WMMF expecting orthodox alt-country. One would be, at best, half right and, more likely than not, pleasantly surprised. On "What Doesn't Kill Us," their second album, the quintet draws from a wide palette with commendable invention and wit. Tracks like the keening "Resistance Street" have something of the epic ambition of Radiohead or Snow Patrol, while the toytown keyboard of "Right Place" and "Prevailing Wind" evoke the lower-fi noodlings of Sparklehorse.
Like all worthwhile acts, though, WMMF, manage to maintain the always crucial trick of sounding like no one so much as themselves. They're certainly confident enough to open with a daring subversion of expectations: rehab memoir "Blood, Sweat & Fears" comes on like Queens of the Stone Age re-imagining The Glitter Band. WMMF revert subsequently to type somewhat, emerging from the murk with "Sultan" which, like much more of their work, recalls the baleful playfulness of the Old 97s and/or the unabashed radio pop of Cheap Trick. "Cheap Wine" and "Self Destruct" pursue a consistent thread of half-formed remorse for past misdeeds, the latter beginning with just one of many of frontman Michael Kingcaid's splendidly mordant quips: "I'd eat your heart out, but my teeth are sore."
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Blood, Sweat & Fears |
4:01 |
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| 02. | |
Sultan |
2:46 |
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| 03. | |
Cheap Wine |
3:21 |
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The Right Place |
2:00 |
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| 05. | |
For The Birds |
3:41 |
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Self-Destruct |
3:43 |
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Resistance St. |
3:52 |
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Prevailing Wind |
2:32 |
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| 09. | |
And The Grief Goes On... |
3:27 |
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To Each His Own |
3:05 |
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| 11. | |
Middle Of The Night |
2:40 |
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| 12. | |
The Other Side |
2:23 |
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12 Total Tracks, 37:31 Total Length
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