All The Falsest Hearts Can Try, by Centro-matic

All The Falsest Hearts Can Try

by Centro-matic

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Yimmy Kil All of their albums are great listens with great sonic textures. Will Johnson is a top lyricist of the last 30 years. Favorite track: In The Strategy Room.

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1.	Cool That You Showed Us How 01:14	buy track
2.	Blisters May Come 04:05	buy track
3.	Call The Legion In Tonight 03:09	buy track
4.	In The Strategy Room 02:00	buy track
5.	Huge In Every City 05:50	buy track
6.	Saving A Free Seat 02:15	buy track
7.	Save Us, Tothero 02:50	buy track
8.	Most Everyone Will Find Out 03:04	buy track
9.	Gas Blowin' Out Of Our Eyes 02:07	buy track
10.	Hercules Now! 03:25	buy track
11.	Magic Cyclops 01:57	buy track
12.	Would Go Over 01:36	buy track
13.	Members Of The Show Them How It's Done 05:34	buy track
14.	Aerial Spins / Nautical Wilderness 03:22	buy track

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Will Johnson's straining voice and lyrical surrealism on Centro-matic's fourth full album elicit comparisons to the psychedelic pop that the Flaming Lips fashioned throughout the 1990s. Borrowing from the Lips' theatrical arrangements on their albums, the tracks on All the Falsest Hearts Can Try overlap thematically, so that the entire album seems to run in a continuous strain of inventively assembled music. The wistful lyrics clinging to a lilting classical piano accompaniment on "Cool That You Showed Us How" shift directly to "The Blisters May Come," with its grinding guitar and screaming speculation about impending pain. This stirring contrast in turn moves into an impressive array of solid indie rock. Although for the most part Centro-matic's sound draws from indie archetypes like Guided By Voices and Pavement, it reveals the band's roots in a Texas tradition of guitar-driven blues, country, and rock. During certain parts, the album quiets down to a beautiful, eerie mix of acoustic guitar and Wurlitzer organ or piano. But both the loud and the soft, the distorted and the purely acoustic, and the screaming and the whispering in Centro-matic's music feel contaminated with a melancholy that is as alarming as it is compelling. ~ John Martin, All Music Guide

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released May 9, 2000

Will Johnson
Matt Pence
Scott Danbom
Mark Hedman

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