'August and Everything After' set the foundation for this band to accomplish one of the greatest milestones in a musical career: be featured in the Shrek 2 soundtrack.
75 ---> 85 fuck my old review, this album is super good. I love the singing. Each song is very heartfelt and amazingly produced, and overall just leaves me with a very warm feeling. This is a great album, glad I relistened to it
Update: 85 ---> 90
OLD REVIEW POSTED: Aug 17, 2023
This album felt like it was so close to being the perfect thing for me, but in the end, this album didn't really hit me that hard. For an album that didn't hit me that hard though, the quality of the music ... read more
My Mom used to put this on in the car during long drives. I figured I would go back to it and see if it was as good as I remember. And surprisingly, it is? For the most part anyway.
Round here is unbelieveably sad to me and I don't know why. Just has that vibe I guess.
Omaha is a more upbeat track that is one of the best in the first half. Accordions never sounded so good.
Mr Jones used to be a song that I would play in guitar lessons when I was younger. Still holds up today.
Perfect Blue ... read more
75 ---> 85 fuck my old review, this album is super good. I love the singing. Each song is very heartfelt and amazingly produced, and overall just leaves me with a very warm feeling. This is a great album, glad I relistened to it
Update: 85 ---> 90
OLD REVIEW POSTED: Aug 17, 2023
This album felt like it was so close to being the perfect thing for me, but in the end, this album didn't really hit me that hard. For an album that didn't hit me that hard though, the quality of the music ... read more
I really enjoyed this album. There are some soft tracks and semi explosive ones. This really fucking good imo and good background music.
A softie debut, marked by its excessive but fully controlled nostalgia, whose more intriguing element is that it is produced by T-Bone Burnett and which is totally focused on whatever happened before August, without a single mention of the day after.
1 | Round Here 5:31 | 90 |
2 | Omaha 3:39 | 84 |
3 | Mr. Jones 4:32 | 93 |
4 | Perfect Blue Buildings 5:00 | 83 |
5 | Anna Begins 4:31 | 86 |
6 | Time and Time Again 5:14 | 79 |
7 | Rain King 4:15 | 84 |
8 | Sullivan Street 4:29 | 82 |
9 | Ghost Train 4:02 | 77 |
10 | Raining In Baltimore 4:41 | 85 |
11 | A Murder of One 5:44 | 81 |
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