Everything Must Go

Jesus this list is like all shitty Brit pop.

I'm pretty sure this is playing on a loop in purgatory. Offensively Inoffensive.

It's no "The Holy Bible", but then again.. nothing is. You can't really follow up the greatest album of all time. It's hard to put into words how much that album and Richey Edwards' story speak to me, so I'm not going to. Maybe once the generator spits out The Holy Bible. God damn it, this is a pretty heavy one. You can tell the studio was haunted by the ghost of Richey Edwards. It's like the music is trying its hardest to be triumphant, but the melancholy and bittersweetness keeps seeping in. And despite that, it's not a challenging listen. You could give this to a random guy on the street and he would be like "Huh this is a pretty good britpop album". I'm gonna give this a 5/5, but if we expanded the scale, then this is like an 8.5/10 and the Holy Bible is a 10/10.

Quintessential Brit-rock mediocrity featuring cut-&-paste 90's guitar-led indie music with few distinguishing features. Lump it all in with Primal Scream, Sterophonics, Ash, Flaming Lips etc. and let the 'cult followers', who deride you for not worshiping it, tattoo the lyrics on their arms and buy tickets to Reading&Leeds festivals to see them headlining as ‘legends’ - playing to the same people as they were 25 years earlier. If you miss them headlining, fret not, just tune into RadioX and a 50 year old DJ will be playing the same turgid shit whilst pronouncing 'they don't make them like this anymore!'.

wasnt expecting this to be the first manic street preachers album i listened to but thats just how it is with this bitch of a site . its pretty good. not planning on doing much music writing today so ill keep it short. i cant make out what the fuck theyre saying so maybe the lyrics are exclusively about how much they hate me, personally, but the guitars are pretty warm and enveloping and its a nice time. its catchy. u know how it is 9/10

HOW HAVE I NEVER LISTENED TO THIS BAND?? I loved every minute of this album. Another band I had heard of but hadn't heard. This 1001 albums thing is so great for finding music that I haven't listened to but should have. As I listened to the songs and read the lyrics (including looking into the background of a lot of the lyrics) I kept coming back to the phrase "depressing lyrics/soaring songs." It's an unusual juxtaposition that really works. The album background is difficult - their first album after guitarist and songwriter Richey James disappeared without a trace (he was declared dead many years later but never found). I really liked the songwriting and in particular the guitar sound. I kept wondering if guitarist James Dean Bradfield was influenced by Alex Lifeson because he uses a lot of unusual chord voicings similar to Alex...later found an article where the Manics interviewed Rush. Apparently they're huge fans. Makes sense given the guitar sound (but not their songwriting - that's very different). Looking forward to digging into their catalog - I see The Holy Bible is also in the 1001 album list and I'm sure I'll be listening to that soon.

Anthemic and grand without dropping into being too cheesy. I was worried how this would be after a sound change and the mysterious disappearance of their guitarist after the last album, but man this absolutely delivered.

New album to me and truly nothing grabbed me. Bad version of standard 90s pop rock IMO

This album is so caught up in the times. It made sense in the mid-90's, but not so much now. You forget how much of a mainstream breakthrough it was for the Manics. At the time they were the support act for The Stone Roses at Wembley Arena. No one outside of the music inches had really paid much attention to them. Design for Life remains an anthem, although not one that I would want to keep on singing 25 years later. It's such an anti-ladism song, yet at the time it got swallowed up by the Britpop masses with takes of only wanting to get drunk. It's a decent album, but very, very dated.

Everything Must Go I remember I was quite late to this, for some reason it was only when Australia was released that I bought it. In fact I think I bought it in HMV in Oxford Street in December ‘96, and subsequently I do associate it with Christmas, probably playing it a lot on my Sony midi hi-fi system I got for Christmas that year. I haven’t listened in a while but it’s so familiar from so many listens; the windswept loneliness of Elvis Impersonator, the imperious A Design for Life, the new-wave-ish scratchiness of Kevin Carter, the anthemic rockness of Enola/Alone and Interiors, the emotionally triumphant title track, the bleakness of Small Black Flowers, the almost disco funk of I Am the Girl, the expansive escapism of Australia, and the slight callback sound of No Surface. Those are all great, great songs. Removables and Further Away are decent album tracks but not at the level of those tracks. It is interesting how classic rock and Britpop adjacent this sounds with its grand symphonic arrangements and generally slower tempos than The Holy Bible. You can almost sense the relief of going with such a large, monumental sound after the claustrophobia of that record and everything with Richie, a real sense of freeing themselves from the legacy of all that. It’s a great album, I should listen more often, but its an easy 5. 🌏🌏🌏🌏🌏 Playlist submission: Australia

IT WAS NO SURFACE AND ALL FEELING

I was obsessed with the Manics. This was the album that alerted me to them, but because I was a skint pre teen, I could afford Generation Terrorists and The Holy Bible. This is a far gentler, poppier and more beautiful album, and an amazing reaction to the tragedy of losing Richie. I don't know that if be the same person today were it not for the Manics.

I'll stick with Radiohead, thanks.

If you need an explanation...

alt-pop-rock-something with an epic nostalgic cinematic feel. most songs could be an anime OP/ED. 4.5/5

Shit man, this was really great. Reminds me of the best aspects of Radiohead around The Bends and Ok Computer, just awesome instrumentation and sound. I'll have to relisten, but what a treat that will be.

Great Album - captured the moment perfectly in 1996

I really thoroughly enjoyed this album. I liked the vocals, I like the instrumentals, it makes me want to check out more from this band. I was sad to read about the disappearance of the main lyricist before this album though. My favorite tracks were A Design for Life, Enola/Alone, Small Black Flowers The Grow In The Sky, The Girl Who Wanted to Be God, Interiors, Further Away, and No Surface All Feeling. I gave it the big like on Spotify. Overall very solid, liked it a lot!

where did they lost Richey?? like in a shop or something??

My dad's favourite album 1996-2001

This is what I'm doing this for, man! A fantastic album that is extremely My Shit, but I would have never thought to listen to it on my own. This is the kind of big, loud pop rock that I am a sucker for. I'm gonna be listening to this all day. Favorite track: Enola/Alone

Tempting to give it a 1 star review just to piss Scott off.

Despite the supposed lethality of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, the memorial album isn't really that common. Or rather, the great memorial album isn't really that common. Everyone can name the most obvious choice: AC/DC's Back in Black, the band's immensely raucous farewell to their lead singer and buddy Bon Scott. But apart from that, very few albums satisfy both qualities. Perhaps the only other major example is this, the indie Back in Black, the Manic Street Preachers' Everything Must Go. Richey Edwards was, along with the bassist Nicky Wire, the Manics' main lyricist; he was also credited as their rhythm guitarist, but his musical skills were rudimentary at best, his guitar left unplugged during most live shows. Richey was also a very troubled young man, prone to depression, self-harm, anorexia and alcoholism. With their previous album The Holy Bible, Richey unleashed his despondent vision, with themes of the Holocaust, murder, consumerism, radical left-wing politics and despair. The band, friends and family had already become seriously concerned with his behaviour when he disappeared on the 1st of February 1995. His car was found near the River Severn Bridge two weks later. It is not known what exactly happened to Richey Edwards; though several sightings have been reported since, none have been confirmed, and the most common assumption is that he jumped from the bridge. He would have been aged 27. He was officially presumed dead on the 23rd of November, 2008. The centrepiece of Everything Must Go is the title track, not A Design for Life, the Manics' most popular song. Everything Must Go is one of the two songs that directly addresses how the remaining Manics sought to cope with the loss of their friend and in-house ideologue. Whereas AC/DC salutes Bon Scott martially with Have a Drink on Me, Everything Must Go is an apologia to Richey, an admittance that the band can't retain his outlook with his departure, and instead has to explore whatever path emerges for them. The chorus is heartbreaking when you realise they're asking their friend to forgive them for no longer being the band he wanted them to be. As anyone who's lost someone will tell you, the guilt you feel for moving on is palpable. But the Manics choose not a sombre tone: they start with the Be My Baby drumbeat. Their commemoration of Richey celebrates his life, expressing their fear of the future, but realising that they have no choice but to keep on walking forward. The memory of Richey appears often throughout the album. Five of the 12 songs were co-written by him. The opener, Elvs Impersonator: Blackpool Pier (one of Richey's creations), mocks cheap, tawdry and pathetic nostalgia; in retrospect, this rejection of the past achieves a greater poignancy. More grimly, Kevin Carter, based on a South African photographer of the Rwandan genocide, concerns a figure who took his own life, and Small Black Flowers that Grow in the Sky explicitly references self-harm (Richey had penned both). But the tracks written after Richey's disappearance reveal a band handling their grief, not wallowing in it. A Design for Life stems far more from Nicky Wire's politics than Richey's: George Orwell and the welfare state rather than Herbert Marcuse and the Weathermen. The sound of the album exhibits a walloping shift from their previous album: string-laden and often bombastic, with little of The Holy Bible's post-punk abrasiveness. The final track, No Surface All Feeling, contains perhaps the album's ultimate message: What's the point in always looking back When all you see is more and more junk? I don't believe the question is wholly rhetorical. Rather, it's a band of friends sincerely asking themselves if reminiscence is worthwhile, given it can engender bitterness as much as consolation. For all their reputation as agit-prop sloganeers, Everything Must Go shows the Manics embracing nuance, of accepting that some of the most important questions might not even have answers. Although not strictly speaking a Britpop album (you'd never see the Manics parading a Union Jack), Everything Must Go is one of the most rewarding albums of British indie in the 90s. The critical consensus regarding the period of The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go is that the Manics never reached such heights again. With the most generous will in the world, one is forced to agree. Sure, you can find the occasional corker in the subsequent decades, but it's those two albums upon which the Manics' legacy stands.

Good blend of raw and polished with a superb vocal delivery. The thing that elevates this album for me is the sonic diversity though, staying well within the niche while exploring the space fully.

Feels like a greatest hits album! This is the manics as their absolute best.

Anthemic songs with poetic lyrics. Has lost none of its power or emotion over the years. Fantastic album.

Visste typ inte att sån här 90s rock kunde vara såhär bra, men det är vad det här projektet är till för! Ett par liiite svagare låtar mot slutet men resten är så jävla starka så det gör inget!

A favourite from my youth- I’m biased. JDB’s voice is great on this.

The girl who wanted to be God? And it's inspired by Sylvia Plath? Oh my dear, my soul burns for this song. Absolutely beautiful artistic merit.

Catching up on this one. Never gone on much of a manics exploration. I might after this one. I really liked it. More upbeat than I expected, poppy with some big songs.

Beautiful album!! I love it!!

The British I may remind you have produced many of the greatest artist's of all time, in fact it is possible to create a viable list of the greatest with only British artists.

The Manics, and particularly Generation Terrorists (probably not on this list), were a definitive band for me growing up, and I just saw them a couple weeks back, so there's no chance of an unbiased review. This album, coming off the astonishing, coruscating The Holy Bible (probably on this list somewhere) and the loss of Richey Edwards, is where their situationist, glamorous art rock kind of transforms into a stadium, anthemic sound, while still singing about Kevin Carter, Willem de Kooning and caged animals. They really went their own way through the 90s. Too important to me to give it anything other than five stars. Libraries gave us power.

Exceptional album. The sound and the lyrics are wonderful.

Man I really love Manic Street Preachers. The singer sounds so familiar to me. Very nostalgic feeling. I don't think this album is nearly as good as The Holy Bible, but it's still a 5 star. That's more to just how good Holy Bible is than any fault of this record. This is very catchy and the strings are a nice touch

Loved their sound, hadn’t heard of the MSPs before, added this album to my personal library.

Who are these funky white men leaving a jam in my ear!!

The MSP's were the first band I saw twice at different festivals. This was when they were still a foursome. The gigs had great energy. Some of the songs on this album hit differently when we learn it's the first album after Richey Manic disappeared. It is, like all of their albums, a great collection of songs.

Preacher's heyday. So powerful and energetic. Love it.

Super solid. Super lush. Super good.

Between this and The Holy Bible, Manic Street Preachers are firmly in the camp of totally new discoveries that I love thanks to this exercise. Love the energy throughout the album. It touches on all the punk, alt, and grunge feels that seem to always strike me

A remarkable album by a remarkable band. After their primary lyricist had disappeared following their previous album, they came back sounding bigger than ever managing to turn the trauma into something positive.

I love finding new artists through this website that I would've never checked out otherwise. First Coldplay, now these guys. Everything about this album is so beautifully well-done. The instrumentals, the vocals, it's all a really nice experience.

Forgot how good this is. What a record. I lived by this

Used to think MSP were a bit mopey - not sure that verdict has changed a lot but did enjoy the nostalgia of Kevin Carter (who is he?!!?)

All removables, all transitory All removables, passing always

Been meaning to listen for a while and hate myself for not doing it earlier after listening. I was surprised how much I liked it despite how "mainstream" it sounded as that is usually not my favorite sound in an album. Also absolutely crazy to read about their previous songwriter vanishing. Really torn between 4 or 5 stars. Rating: 4.6

Excellent stuff, great summer music

The album that made me appreciate the Manics. From the first note to the last, this album is by far the best thing they have released. Saw them live at the end of this tour, genuine life experience.

Banger

A really pleasant surprise. A great album.

We don’t talk about love We only want to get drunk - A design for life

Elvis impersonator: amazing A design for life: amazing Kevin Carter: very good Enola/alone: excellent Everything must go: very good Small black flowers: excellent The girl who wanted to be god: very good Removables: good Australia: excellent Interiors: very good Further away: good No surface all feeling:

Quite a lot of these songs sound the same. Didn’t hate it didn’t love it

This is NOT Brit Pop. Repeat - this is not Brit Pop. It's Brit Bolton. Yes, Michael Bolton invaded 90's music via the Manics. How else do you explain the vocals here - especially on Further Away. I lived in London in the 90s and couldn't ever understand the love the UK music press had for the Manic Street Preachers ( and Menswear). This is a band who would have thrived as a power ballad poodle rock band but were born in the wrong decade. Design for Life is the only thing raising this from 1 star.

LET'S GOOO MANICS

Great album. Love it. No complaints.

There are the classic Britpop albums, the ones everyone listens to. This is the one that they should Aspire to. It has a gorgepus clean sonic base, with many of the tracks having their own foibles and signatures. Lyrically, it's diverse and intellectual curious. And yet, it is an album about the common human life, even as it occasionally explores individual figures. It is a wonder to behold.

Bloody hell it must be about 20 years since I’ve listened to this one. I used to love the Manics but stopped listening to them when I went full Metalhead lol. I really enjoyed revisiting this, I might have to delve into their discography to see what I’ve missed. Top Track - Kevin Carter

Bombastic and gritty 90s britpop, a radical departure in sound and feel following the disappearance of guitarist Richey Edwards (which is in and of itself a pretty fascinating story). I was immediately drawn in by the big, loud feel of "A Design for Life" and was more than happy to go along for the ride for the whole album. A really excellent introduction to this band IMO.

Love the melancholic chord progressions. Clever and interesting throughout. Kevin Carter what a gem. Didn't know many of their hits were crammed onto this one album! 5/5

Energieke Britpop met een maatschappijkritisch randje, daar ben ik helemaal niet tegen. Lang niet gehoord, deze muziek, 'A design for life' was ik zowat vergeten, en dan had ik het destijds nog verkeerd verstaan ook (ik dacht altijd dat ze zongen 'I'm designed for her life', wat veel zegt over de manier waarop ik dit soort muziek luister). Hoe dan ook, ik kan de manische straatpredikers deze keer goed hebben, en ik ben (mede daardoor) goed gemutst vandaag.

We hebben al eerder een album van de Preachers gehad en die viel me iets tegen, die vond ik maar meh. Maar dit album bevalt me veel beter. Misschien ook vanwege de rest van de albums die ik hier omheen moet luisteren, waar ik te vaak geen lijn in kan ontdekken of wat gewoon reteslecht is en ik me enorm stoor aan de keuzes van de snobs. Hier krijgen we tenminste gewoon liedjes, die een lekker catchy refreintje hebben, of een fijne gitaarriff. Dat mag gewoon, je hoeft echt niet artsy-fartsy te doen, of quasi-ongeintereseerd te zingen. Toch zitten ook hier regelmatig wat extra instrumenten in, er is muzikale omlijsting, of aparte drumfills. Dus ook de snob komt aan zijn trekken. Ik hoor de eerste paar nummers voor een tweede keer, omdat ik eergisteren het album niet af kon luisteren en ik heb album in zijn geheel opnieuw gestart heb. En die eerste paar tracks zijn al bijna 5 sterren waard. A Design for Life en Kevin Carter zijn echt top en kunnen zo in een playlist op Spotify, als ik dat zou hebben. Ik kan hier buitengewoon van genieten en dat is ook wel een keer wat waard tijdens deze uitputtende queeste van 1001++ albums. Laat ik dan ook niet moeilijk doen en op dat vijfje rossen.

Discazo

Echt heel leuk

I was a fan of this band because of this album.

There seems to be a lot of hate for this album, and probably MSP in general. That's a real shame. The first album after Richey's disappearance, yet can you tell? Maybe, but his presence still lingers here and with melancholy effect. This album marked a period of reinvention and of course resilience. They did it big and they did it well and in the process pathed their way for glory. Their audience grew, they climbed the charts and earned themselves a wider household name. "A Design for Life", "Kevin Carter", "Enola/Alone" all with their strong themes and powerful messages are music to my ears. A great album from a great band at a trying and unfathomably difficult time.

I love Manic Street Preachers SO much. This may be my favorite album, though my favorite song of theirs is on the next one... I hope that one is on the list as well. Not a dud song on the album. Amazing performance considering this was the first album they released without Richey Edwards after his disappearance.

One of your main lyric writers and tortured genius totems goes missing and is presumed dead and all you have left is a binder with a bunch of randomn lyrics in. What do you do? You step up and use the lyrics (along with your own) to create a powerhouse stadium rattling indie rock album. It'll blow the cobwebs away while stroking that 4Real scar. Best Tracks: A Design For Life; Interiors (Song for Willem De Koonnig); All Surface No Feeling

7/10

A rebirth, excellent in it’s sad fury.

Ah yet another beloved Manics album on the list. The contrast between this album and The Holy Bible is so fascinating, this is much more of a "britpop" album. It's like therapy after the depressiveness of the previous album. You can feel both Richey's influence on some tracks he still contributed to but also the impact of his disappearance on other songs. It's just all so bittersweet 5/5

Manics are a firm favourite in our house and we love this album. Listen to it often. Excellent lyracists.

Tämä löytyy useana eri versiona omasta levyhyllystä ja bändi on sen parikymmentä kertaa nähty livenä. Tykkään! Tämän levyn ehdoton suosikkibiisini on ”Kevin Carter”.

Love it so far a dreamy mix of rock and pop.

I know the amount of Britpop on this list is maligned by many and that is fine not everyone will enjoy everything but just try and listen to this album for what it is 12 absolute rippers from one of the best bands to every do it. No, its not The Holy Bible but it doesn't need to be and I personally wouldn't want it to be. The Holy Bible is a masterpiece so why try and outdo yourself in that style when you can release an equally incredible album with such a stylistic change. Its hard to speak about this album without the context of the disappearance of Richey Edwards lyricist and creative force behind the Manics who vanished the year before. How the band managed to release an album so full of hope in the wake of such tragedy is a sight to behold. I will always turn to this album in my darkest moments. There are at least 9 tracks on this album I would include on my playlist if I could Enola / Alone is one of my first favourite songs and was my introduction to the band. No Surface All Feeling is a beautiful closer and a fitting farewell. I could find something positive to say for every song on this album but I'm going to choose A Design For Life. It is of course the popular pick but the undeniable energy of this working class anthem is palpable and I will never tire of hearing it. Playlist track: A Design For Life.

I love the Manics!

Manic Street Preachers are a band that has persevere through some of rock and roll's lowest moments in terms of a band tragedy. You could feel that ooze all over Everything Must Go. Richey Edwards meant more to to the band and their chemistry perhaps more than what he outputted as a member of the band. More than a hypeman, but more of a 6th man in basketball. The Holy Bible is a much stronger work over Everything Must Go, with a good percent of that difference is rooted in the dark lyricism and conceptual theme to Richey. But the band kept playing and had a pretty strong bounce back in spite of the trauma and darkness that led to Richey's disappearance (likely a suicide no matter what the band members and family say). So yeah, I would say Manic are a lot better of a band than Oasis's wankery for "britpop" standards. I think MSP were a bit more of a harder band than the typical britpop 90s act, much more clear punk influence in their music.

Brilliant

Brilliant. Was getting really bored of all the American keech on here.

Ovu albumčinu ne moram ni slušati da znam da je čista petica i jedan od najboljih na cijeloj listi. Manics su mi slaba tačka. Najbolji britanski bend iz devedesetih ubjedljivo i jedan od njihovih najjačih albuma, vjerovatno odmah iza Holy Bible i TIMTTMY (grozan akronim). Žalim što sam ih tek dubinski otkrila prije desetak godina, uprkos tome što se televizija pojačavala svaki put kad naiđe A Design for Life. I dan-danas mi je teško naći dražu pjesmu, općenito. Danas pod temperaturom nisam namjeravala ni slušati album ali je baš pravi došao. Valjda mi je malo zasjenjen ovim još boljim njihovim albumima pa je slušanje baš leglo. Izuzetan album, jedino mi Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky nije skroz legla. Uvijek će mi biti smiješno kako su im refreni bukvalni, ide ime pjesme ad nauseam i eventualno još jedan stih uz to (ne smeta mi ni to koliko su mi drag bend). No surface, all bangers.

Wonderful!

more manic street preachers this time around, and i really really like this one. this is the first album they released when richey edwards disappeared... i think i might have discussed this when i reviewed the last album by these guys. compared to their last album this one has a much more traditional and contemporary britpop sound. it's very loud, it's very immersive with its sound... one of the cooler techniques i've noticed is the blend of both acoustic and electric guitars... it's a unconventional pairing but when it works, it works super well. i had a great time listening to this.

Such a weird inbetween. I doesn't sound that revolutionary, but i still don't think i've ever heard something like this before. It sticks, i love it

I’m surprised this is the first Manics album I’ve come across on this list. My sister was completely obsessed with the band during her teenage years and plays bass, so I know every track on this record - if only by the basslines. Ironically, she’s far less into them now, while I’ve grown quite fond of their music. This album is strong from start to finish: anthemic, packed with thought-provoking lyrics, and a perfect snapshot of mid-90s indie. Favourite tracks: Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier, A Design for Life, Kevin Carter, Everything Must Go, Small Black Flowers That Grow in the Sky, Australia.

Gostei bastante.

This isn’t a perfect album but there’s no reason not to give it five stars. JDB is absolutely on fire here and what a comeback for the band as they mourn Richey’s disappearance.

Mid nineties guitar rock with pop sensibilities. Right up my alley, but I’ve never listened to it before. “Australia” is a standout at first listen. A lot of variety.

Had no idea who they were but really enjoyed the album. Haven’t heard a new to me rock album in a while that I liked this all the way through.

Ok, my bias is gonna show here as this was my first ever gig at 14 years old. This is generational music. Cooler than britpop with better music, better lyrics with a better message, big sweeping strings, a back story to punch you in the heart but above all some absolute banging songs.

The Manic's first album since Richey Edwards disappearance is, in contrast to earlier more minimalist records, a big bombastic rock album for the most part. Songs like the title track, "Australia", "A Design for Life", "Kevin Carter", "Enola/Alone" are as in your face as anything on Oasis's first two albums, although much more substantial. Complementing the powerchords are sweeping strings and brass. Lyrically, especially on the songs to which Edwards contributed, the band tackles social issues, consumerism, politics. "Kevin Carter", musically anthemic, the trumpet reminiscent of TV series such as The Persuaders or The Protectors, is written about the South African, photographer who, tormented by the cruelty and inhumanity he had documented in his home country and in Sudan, took his own life, the psychological strain shared by Edwards. "Small Black Flowers That Grow In The Sky", a delicate, harp-based ballad, a seems to be about animal cruelty, in Zoos, in testing facilities (?), but also about individual mental health. A stunningly good album. Big, loud, brash and much deeper than it appears on the surface.

really surprised by this one! really fun britpop. the influence here is pretty laid bare, very beatle-y at points. it feels like a disservice to compare every britpop album to the two big britpop bands, and I wouldn't say this gets to that level, but it's only a half step below.

I can't believe I have never listened to Manic Street Preachers before!!! The first song had me hooked. The strings throughout are so good

a very consistent album, strong guitar songs that are still immediately recognizable: 4.5 again.

Major Queen vibes. I’ve never heard of this band. I love the use of strings. Feels like some ELO influence as well

Solid production and string writing. Loved this album and will definitely be listening to more by the band. A very cool blend of styles.

Listened Before?: No! I have literally never even heard of them Pros: I LOVED this album. It was so good and I haven't stopped listening to it since I found it! Cons: None! Songs Added to Playlist: A Design for Life, Enola/Alone, Everything Must Go, The Girl Who Wanted to be God, No Surface All Feeling

I really enjoyed this.

46/1001 First listen. I don’t know how I know of these guys and yet have never heard their music before. Somehow not what I expected. Kinda mediocre at first but grew on me after a few plays. I’ll come back to this and probably explore some of their other albums. Actually after 5 more plays I’m giving this another star. 7/10

Knew of this group by name only, had no idea of what their music sounded like. Enjoyed it a lot, catchy tunes of a wide variety, jangly guitars, etc.