Emergency & I
Your Review
CRITIC REVIEWS
100
Though its influence on music at large has been difficult to chart, if we're to gauge a work's import by what it's meant to the people that come across it, Emergency & I is one of indie's key LPs.
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.
95
From beginning to end, Emergency & I showcases a balance between heartfelt emotion and biting wit in such equal measure, that no album by any of The Plan’s countless imitators can truly compare.
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.
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.
Aggressive and passive, simple and complex, smooth and sharp, the only thing that doesn't contradict is that i love it.
Fantastic record. That's all I really have to say
This is such a deranged indie record with its angular guitars, Morrison's cryptic lyrics,frantic singing and its orthodox musicianship. I can see many traces of influences running through this album but personally to me this doesn't hit me as hard as other indie-rock classics of its time. I still highly recommend to anyone who hasn't listen to this.
Fav tracks: What do you want me to say?, I love a magician, You are invited and Back and forth
Fav tracks: What do you want me to say?, I love a magician, You are invited and Back and forth
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #1 | / | Pitchfork |
MISC LISTS
| #16 | / | Pitchfork (1990s) |
| #26 | / | SPIN (1985-2014) |
| #103 | / | Pitchfork: The People's List |
Track List
- A Life of Possibilities
- Memory Machine
- What Do You Want Me to Say
- Spider in the Snow
- The Jitters
- I Love A Magician
- You Are Invited
- Gyroscope
- The City
- Girl O Clock
- 8 1/2 Minutes
- Back And Forth
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Added on: August 22, 2012
