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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
The Plan colors this record with 12 songs that serve as hitching posts for whatever ails you. Life medicine never sounded better.
100
The album, ahead of its time to this day, used fairly standard rock instruments (keyboards, guitars, drums, etc.) to make something entirely new.
100
Emergency & I was and continues to be an absolutely stellar album.
96
If you consider yourself a fan of groundbreaking pop, go out and buy this album right now. Now. Get up. Go.
90
It can be late-night jazzy mood-out or sudden thrash, but the quartet handles all approaches with aplomb and creative arrangements to boot.
10y
90
The Dismemberment Plan have made a masterpiece that the kids will be talking about and garage bands imitating for years to come.
80
A link between the tense, complex emo-punk of Fugazi and Jawbox and the talky, preppy tunefulness of the Hold Steady and Vampire Weekend.
Happy to say this one is has grown upon revisiting. I don't really have a lot else to say about it at the moment so lets leave it at that until I do know what to say
I've never had many friends. In theory that doesn't matter to me, I can take care of myself for myself, I have music at least. I'm not around many people I have tons of common interests with, so logically I just keep myself to myself. However, there's a part of me. That part of me has this urge. An urge which will only ever be satisfied when everyone in the world considers me their best friend. It's currently nearing the end of summer break. The few people I currently consider "real ... read more
Paranoia is a big problem for me. I would call myself a very paranoid person, someone who worries about everything, catastrophises even. I panic a lot. On my first listen of The Dismemberment Plan’s Emergency & I, I felt that same paranoia thrown back at me, and I mean that in the best way possible.
“You dig down underground now
Through the soil, through the cooling clay
As the din fades above you
You're moving, you're secret, you're nowhere, it's all good”
This album is ... read more
Starting at The City to the end of the album is one of the best few minutes of the album.
![The Dismemberment Plan - Change [Reissue]](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/200x/album/2014/22804-change-reissue.jpg)
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Track List
| 1 | A Life of Possibilities 4:34 | 95 |
| 2 | Memory Machine 2:43 | 92 |
| 3 | What Do You Want Me to Say? 4:18 | 96 |
| 4 | Spider in the Snow 3:50 | 90 |
| 5 | The Jitters 4:19 | 87 |
| 6 | I Love a Magician 2:38 | 84 |
| 7 | You Are Invited 4:52 | 90 |
| 8 | Gyroscope 2:29 | 92 |
| 9 | The City 4:26 | 94 |
| 10 | Girl O' Clock 2:54 | 90 |
| 11 | 8 1/2 Minutes 2:57 | 90 |
| 12 | Back and Forth 5:07 | 91 |
Total Length: 45 minutes
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3mo
bro im listening to this again cuz im bored and i cannot get over how good the jitters is
i cant get over that song man
the quiet saxophone in the background
the melancholy guitars
the ambient noises at the end
that song is a 11/10
i cant get over that song man
the quiet saxophone in the background
the melancholy guitars
the ambient noises at the end
that song is a 11/10
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Added on: August 22, 2012