MINE
Q: Who opens an album with an instrumental?
A: A band with a crap vocalist.
Seriously, Portastatic are capable of the odd good tune (few and far between here) but generally it's indie-rock-by-numbers, combined with the usual mix that drowns the vocals (fortunately in this case) along with a lot of whining, some shouting and some feedback.
We have so many CDs with much better music than this.
VERDICT: THROW IT OUT
YOURZ
Ah, what a piece of indie self-indulgence this is! Essentially a vehicle for lead Superchunk's Mac McCaughan (see our Superchunk's Foolish review here), this was one of those records I brought way back when because I'm such a friggin' completist. I think I probably listened to it, oh maybe half a dozen times. With the exception of maybe two tracks, the songs are ordinary and the album lacks any real consistency, often burying the vocals so deeply in the mix, you'd think some of these tracks were instrumental.
That there is a track on this album called Had says it all, really.
VERDICT: THROW IT OUT
For more information: http://www.portastatic.com/
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