Please Don't Take Me Back

Did someone from the band put this on here? I love this sort of sound, but these kind of bands are a dime a dozen these days and this isn't exceptional. Amusingly, spotify recommended another band, Muncie Girls who have played with people from Martha, which is a band I do enjoy, in particular Lande Hekt. She is amazing. Go listen to that instead. Given how this kinda sound is dime a dozen, this band has had no impact on the industry at all, it's not really essential that you listen to this. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

This album is tons of fun. Every song is just undiluted mainline power pop punk and it hits like crack for me even if some of the lyrics might be a little eye roll worthy.

Kind of a obscure British band. So did not know what to expect. The chance in vocalists is a fun variation. It's rock, but a lot of indie too. Enjoyed it very much, and let's hope they break through to mainland Europe too.

I bloody love this album. In fact, I was wearing my Martha tshirt whilst listening. I don't know what it is about Martha but they really get me going. I think their lyrics and style just fit my demographic perfectly. It's that style of grown up po-p-punk, emo indie and taking that same style and feeling but it's grown up with the audience,

Please note - I did not submit this album, although they are from literally about half a mile from where I live. I wouldn't like to swear to it, but I'm pretty sure I could walk to where this album cover was photographed within about twenty minutes. That's Durham cathedral in the background, there. To my knowledge, I've not met anyone from Martha but they are one degree of separation from me, so it makes me genuinely happy to see that people seem to enjoy them. Despite this, I've never listened to this album in its entirety before. Has very strong A vibes, and that's not a bad thing.

Another great find. I had never heard this album before but it was quite the banger.

This was very good. Reminded me a bit of my favorite band, the Replacements, though a bit more pop-sounding and less punk sounding. 4 stars.

It's punk, but not really punk. It's pop, but not really pop. It's a fourth studio album, but also a fourth studio album. It's a fast 35 minutes. But it needs to be more songs if it's really going to be a punk album... so it's more pop than anything else. I like it, though.

Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Baby does your heart sink, flag//burner

Great indie rock album with a lot of energy and fun in uptempo songs. My favorites are “Beat, Perpetual”, “Every Day the Hope Gets Harder” and “Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?”

I’ve been doing the user contributed list for about three weeks now and this is the first band I hit the follow button for on Spotify to make sure I come back and listen to another record. Something about the sound really resonates with me.

Tagging this for later. It's too new to make sense on a list like this, but the sound is right up my alley and I enjoyed the rotating vocals.

Soild British indie album, right up my street but never heard of these guys before, think I’ll come back To this one, good choice.

I always find singers with strong regional accents very charming - after hearing so many fake-American voices in British bands, it’s refreshing to hear a group who are indisputably from County Durham. Martha are from a village called Pity Me (incredible name) but their brand of pop-punk is surprisingly positive, with a bit of a Rosenstock vibe but also a Puzzle-era Biffy Clyro approach to some of the hooks. It’s nothing too new or groundbreaking, but it’s really enjoyable and uplifting stuff

I got severe Jimmy Eat World vibes from this at first blush and a Replacements after-taste when I listened again. Deliciously unexpected.

Shiny and splashy, bright and flashy. One likes that many young people are seem to be choosing newer rock or bands (see also Amyl + Sniffers, recently served up in the completed user lists), to encourage one and other oldsters that rock 'n' roll is still in good shape. One likes this record for that reason – these young things rocking true, with purer energy than one has now and an admirable sincerity. Beyond the despairing "total cancellation of the future" (great line), one can't discern anything specifically socialistic or anarchistic or vegan in the music; and it's not even too angry feeling or mopey for that matter – the Sorrows of Young Werther in day-glo (sorta), title cut suggesting classic youthful confusion and self-struggling. Not at all dystopian, it all seems rather more straightforward and much more fun and bouncy, eager to please, even less experimental or severe or offkilter or different by intention than one would've expected for a band famous for their political commitments. Plus, there's a Huey Lewis reference – incongruous, to put it mildly. Anyway, dig it, not only because one could be safely considered a fellow traveler in terms of the collective spirit and think it would work well on list proper, replacing NIN or Marilyn Manson or Offspring or Prodigy, because thoughtful and optimistic (which at least this records sounds like) dissension trumps shock value anytime. Feels like one might be patting earnest young Martha on the head ... which wouldn't be an inaccurate description of how one feels about this lot.

Reminds me of an album from 30 years ago in the most pleasing way possible.

a pretty cool new album to me. Martha the band not just the person, have a style of reinvented 90s alt punk mixed with the style of vampire weekend. Overall it’s a pretty fun recent album that has a little bit of everything. The changing of singers keeps the album fresh yet keeps the same string style instrumentally. I’d revisit this and definitely check out their other stuff. 6.8/10

Indie pop, pop punk, power pop. Ni fu ni fa.

Feels like standard issue alt-pop. Pleasant and inoffensive, but forgettable.

Thought this would be a slower singer-songwriter effort, so I was pleasantly surprised by the squeal of feedback that started the LP. Can’t say I’m a fan of the male vocals (too Jeff Rosenstock for my taste), but the guitar and other instrumentals are solid and make this a fun indie outing overall.

I didn't mind this, didn't love it either. For all the counterculture cred suggested by the band description and history, I thought the sound was pretty mainstream alternative, without much vestige of supposed punk influences.

Kind of a throwback for 2022. Feels like a lot of the sort of indie rock of the mid-2000s or early-2010s. Didn't hate it, but didn't stand out at all.

This is someone’s friend’s band but it’s fun in a modern pop rock punk kinda way

Not bad

Shoegaze pop for the 2020s

Very listenable leaning heavier on the pop side of pop punk. I enjoyed it although I don’t think I’d put it on my 1001 list. But I wouldn’t mind being at one of their shows at all!

Never heard of this before. Going by the cover... something folky? Ok no it's pop punk. I don't know much about this genre, the closest I ever listened to was like blink 182 in high school and I know these guys will be 2 orders of magnitude removed from that in 2022, but that's my frame of reference. But it's doing a pretty standard pop punk thing, which is hard not to tap your foot to. Ok! Overall, this was that kinda childish pop punk I never really got into, mostly because it pretty much only has one speed and gets old quickly, BUT this only went for half an hour anyway. Thank Christ someone understood the assignment. Nothing groundbreaking, but catchy enough and knew not to overstay its welcome. 3/5.

Okay, I won’t

Didn't love it, didn't hate it

I enjoyed the punchy, power pop vibe of this album, although the quality of the vocals was really hit or miss for me. Doesn't really bring anything new to the table, but it's a fun listen. Fave Songs: Beat, Perpetual; Please Don't Take Me Back; Hope Gets Harder; Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?

It's ok- sounds more like an Australian boyband I know but it's fun and honest. I can't bring myself to give it a poor score.

Yeah this grew on me a little. At first I wasn't sure but by the end I felt it picked up quite a bit. It wasn't particularly good overall but I didn't hate it either

It's enjoyable and very 2000-esque, but nothing much more.

Not what I was expecting! It was pleasantly pop punky but nothing really stuck with me.

This cover art sucks but the music is ok

Love listening to the newer music people suggest. This is very likable, high energy. Not super special though. Enjoyable not essential.

Swearin' and Los Campesinos vibes. If you enjoyed the lead vocal switch ups, check out Fall Into the Sun by Swearin'.

I did enjoy the regional accents but I agree with the person who said that this type of album is a dime a dozen. Nothing stand out for me. I’m sure if this was my jam and I heard this album first then I would love it, much like those who heard Denis Leary before Bill Hicks.

But formulaic

Pretty decent

Like a first draft of a demo, with seemingly no thought put into polishing the songs up or having an actual producer help them out. This is endearing at points, but at other times I just wish they had spent more than the run-time on writing and recording. An interesting album I would never have heard without it being here, but falls a long way short of the standard required for the top 1,001 (or even 2,002) albums.

Like a shit McFly.

Nothing on here that blew me away.

It was good, but didn't blow me away

The truth is, nothing transcendental or relevant seemed to me; their most listened to songs seemed generic and lacking emotion or hype. Another indie that is indie for a reason.

Almost everything I don't want to hear crammed into the first 30 seconds of the first song. I have a 1001 reasons not to listen to this album.