专辑简介

The Mendoza Line专辑介绍：by Stephen CramerBrooklyn's Mendoza Line's 1999 disc was released on Kindercore Records soon before the band headed for New York, having originated in the musical hotbed of Athens, GA. The album starts off calmly, with the organ and twang guitar-laden "The Big Letdown." From the get-go, Timothy Bracy's reserved and reflective voice takes center stage. The band is at its best when it recklessly performs its carefree style of pop/rock. Peter Hoffman and others create a rollicking foundation throughout the album, a collection that seamlessly flows through its ups and downs. Songs like "Pushing Buttons," "You Twitch When You Dream," "If I Am Not What You Are Used To," and "An Enterprising Molecule" highlight the Mendoza Line's energetic and cathartic capacity to display its genuine love affair with music in its upbeat songs. The songs are loose, yet composed. Songs such as "Social Thursday," "The Living Theater," "As You Appear," and "Berkeley No. 57" create a more laid-back approach to the band's pop aesthetic. These softer songs showcase the bandmembers' flair for intricate and deliberate songs that seem to somehow narrate a slow-motion recording of life's beauty and frailties, all in pop songs of four minutes or less. The band's music is perpetually humble, soothing, and relentlessly focused on the craft of songwriting. The combination sets the Mendoza Line apart from the norm in the world of indie rock.