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90
With their mix of righteous but mischievous poetry and charging music and dramatic vocals, Ought have conjured one of the most refreshing and inspiring rock records of the year.
90
Steeped in the postpunk aesthetic, a well-established rock style that nonetheless remains richer and deeper than any other in formal possibilities, this is a record that conflates doubt and optimism while at surface remaining aggressively articulate.
84
It’s an anxious, distressed record to be sure—brimming with feelings of disaffection and dislocation—but it presents itself as such simply to show you how that nervous energy can be put to more positive, constructive use.
80
On the whole, More Than Any Other Day is a deeply refreshing listen, bursting at the seams with joy and anger and less indebted to its long list of influences than it is an entity greater than the sum of its parts.
75
Ought’s blistering More Than Any Other Day, the Montreal-formed quartet’s debut, is a post-punk album on the surface, armed with barbed wire guitars and conspicuous hi-hats. It works best, however, when it’s hastily becoming something rather than settling itself into one pocket.
70
Montreal's Ought displays a pretty wide set of influences on this debut record of theirs, including experimental folk rock to tracks that blend sounds of Midwest emo with the dismal emotions of bands like Slint.
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Post punk post punk post punk post punk post punk post punk post punk post punk. Yea this is cool lol. I wish I liked this a litttttleeee bit more than I do, but it’s still cool. I think the vocalist at times doesn’t work for me as well, but sometimes it does and when the instrumentals hit, they HIT. Today More Than Any Other Day has an awesome switch up from the very barren sounding first half. Habit is also cool. Surprisingly the slowest moment on here ... read more
I reeeeally enjoy listening to this album. Even with a bunch of notable influences, it carries originality. Tim's performance, the guitars' dances, the bass guiding through mysterious and couriously funny places, the simple but perfect drums: everything and everyone in this album pulls up the listener to the most liberating mosh pits inside the mind.
Must listen: Today More Than Any Other Day (an anthem!), Habit, Gemini.
I want in on the team :(
Post punk post punk post punk post punk post punk post punk post punk post punk. Yea this is cool lol. I wish I liked this a litttttleeee bit more than I do, but it’s still cool. I think the vocalist at times doesn’t work for me as well, but sometimes it does and when the instrumentals hit, they HIT. Today More Than Any Other Day has an awesome switch up from the very barren sounding first half. Habit is also cool. Surprisingly the slowest moment on here ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Pleasant Heart 5:54 | |
| 2 | Today More Than Any Other Day 5:16 | |
| 3 | Habit 6:04 | |
| 4 | The Weather Song 4:37 | |
| 5 | Forgiveness 4:51 | |
| 6 | Around Again 5:26 | |
| 7 | Clarity! 6:59 | |
| 8 | Gemini 6:50 |
Total Length: 46 minutes
Year End Lists
| #8 | / | Drowned in Sound |
| #9 | / | Crack Magazine |
| #13 | / | Rolling Stone |
| #22 | / | Clash |
| #28 | / | Pretty Much Amazing |
| #28 | / | The 405 |
| #30 | / | Under the Radar |
| #39 | / | Pitchfork |
| #41 | / | Consequence of Sound |
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Added on: April 28, 2014