a r t i s t :: The Maccabees
t i t l e :: Marks To Prove It
d a t e :: 2015-00-00
l a b e l :: Fiction Recods
g e n r e :: Indie
s o u r c e :: CD
b i t r a t e :: 846 kbps avg
e n c o d e r :: FLAC 1.2.1 -8 -V
t r a c k s :: 11
p l a y t i m e :: 41:17
s i z e :: 251.9MB
tracklist
1 Marks To Prove It 4:14
2 Kamakura 3:59
3 Ribbon Road 4:23
4 Spit It Out 5:09
5 Silence 3:19
6 River Song 3:10
7 Slow Sun 4:12
8 Something Like Happiness 3:43
9 WW1 Portraits 3:18
10 Pioneering Systems 2:30
11 Dawn Chorus 3:20
releasenotes
The fourth album by the south London quintet has a strange, disconcerting
intensity about it — a self-destructive energy battling with mawkish
introspection. While recent releases from indie’s new guard — Wolf Alice,
Peace, Swim Deep — are hippyishly optimistic, the Maccabees, creeping close to
30, seem despondent when faced with the future. As lofty and stoic as Arcade
Fire’s The Suburbs, with a claustrophobic, concrete-like weight to its sound,
Marks to Prove It is indebted to the cold grey city in which it was created –
or perhaps the time spent in it drinking to forget: On Dawn Chorus, its
subject “swigs a bottle to send him on his way down”; on Spit It Out, “There’s
one to wash it down / One to wash it out”; and during Kamakura, singer Orlando
Weeks laments, “Drinking when you’re drunken / To chase down the evening”.
These are slow, loping, anxious anthems that bypass the drunkenness and muddle
the brain like a hangover.
www.themaccabees.co.uk
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