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Martha are a rock band from Pity Me, a village in County Durham in the North East of England. After singles on their own Discount Horse label and Odd Box Records, their debut album Courting Strong, was released on Fortuna Pop! and Salinas Records in 2014. As of 2022 they have released four full-length albums on cult UK and US based independent record labels. They have described themselves as queer, vegan and anarchist. They have no designated frontperson and all contribute vocals. Two members of Martha previously founded (and still play in) the band ONSIND, and another led the band No Ditching. Multiple members of Martha have also played in the group Fortitude Valley. They have variously cited The Housemartins, Motown, Billy Bragg, The Thermals, Ted Leo, power pop, The Replacements, Heart, The Marked Men, Big Star, Masshysteri, and The Exploding Hearts as influences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.