Track Listing
1. It Ain't Gonna Save Me
2. Before I Was Caught
3. Man of Steel
4. Can't Do It Anymore
5. Faking It
6. I'm Watching You
7. Wounded
8. Rotten Mind
9. Nothing Now
10. My Reality
11. Hang Them All
12. There is No Sun
| Details | | Playing Time: | 32 min. | | Distributor: | Distribution Select | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Recording information: Electraphonic Recording, Memphis, TN; Shattered Studios, Memphis, TN.
Jay Reatard opens his second full-length, WATCH ME FALL, with a classic bit of Buzzcocks-style frantic, sexually pent-up punk pop. The record continues on the same pepped-up, neurotic pace, supremely self-flagellating, deliriously confused, reverent, often nostalgic, yet, oddly, wholly of its time; essentially everything that made Reatard one of the more exciting indie artists of the late-'00s. And that's not to say the record is anywhere near one-note: WATCH ME FALL veers from classic `70s punk to jagged-deconstructionist Devo-esque concoctions to Brit pop of more recent vintage to post-rock guitar fuzz.
Editorial Reviews
Reatard classes up the joint a bit, smearing organ, hard-strummed acoustic guitar, and strings on the unrequited-love epic 'I'm Watching You.'
Spin
4 stars out of 5 -- Reatard needs only the initial 15 seconds of 'It Ain't Gonna Save Me' to wedge the crunchy hooks and helium-inspired, faux-British vocals into the brain.
Alternative Press
Opening track and leadoff single 'It Ain't Gonna Save Me' is ample proof that Jay Reatard can mature without the dull connotation the word carries, being as relentlessly catchy as it is careful in its arrangement.
Pitchfork
[These] ridiculously infectious tunes come wrapped in arrangements that run from frenetic punk to bouncy Britpop to wistful balladry. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Billboard The standout track 'Wounded' lets a sunny guitar melody gain momentum before Reatard's propulsive vocals conjure the glory days of garage rock.
3.5 stars out of 5 -- [This set] shows him letting his primitive guard down....[With] choral sugar, dub effects, sweet guitar cascades and mad hooks.
Rolling Stone
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