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Forget What You Know

Current price: $20.99
Forget What You Know
Forget What You Know

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Forget What You Know

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Midtown
has jettisoned its last stores of
punk-pop
silly string for
Forget What You Know
, its ambitious major-label debut, coming up with a leaner, more moody sound. Working with producer
Butch Walker
(
Marvelous 3
), the foursome finds new life in the shadows of
punk revivalism
and vague modern
rock
cynicism, forgoing sugar-high hooks in favor of less direct yet still succinct songcraft. Jeez,
Gabriel Saporta
's husky croon even sounds like
Jakob Dylan
sometimes. That doesn't mean
is aiming for
adult alternative
. No, it dwells in wiry guitars, weary singing, purposeful instrumental shifts, and routs of textured aggression. It's the sound of wanting very badly to grow up.
"Is It Me? Is It True?"
begins with a ping-ponging verse, but soon shifts into toy piano breaks and feel-good lyrics like "Sex is old/Old and boring." The album's morose interludes --
"Armageddon,"
"God Is Dead"
-- are also telling, as they reflect directly off the cloud of gloomy cynicism hovering over
. (That the proceedings end with nearly ten minutes of the looped phrases "You've had all the time in the world" and "You don't listen" is equally blatant.) This doomsayer's obsession with apathy -- "I can't believe anything/Every year it's the same," from
"Manhattan"
-- becomes kind of awkward, as it seems like too much anger too quickly for
. Luckily, the band finds some time to just
the pain away.
"To Our Savior"
aims for ragged,
Division of Laura Lee
-style
post-punk
;
"Nothing Is Ever What It Seems"
broods, but in a rueful way;
"Empty Like the Ocean"
kicks up some throbbing yellow dust of its own.
isn't a sun-and-sand summertime record, but it's perfect for kids making the transition from goofy preteen
pop
-
punk
to bands like
the Alkaline Trio
, where the dark things aren't hidden behind a massive backline. ~ Johnny Loftus

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