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MagnetJun 17, 2013Partygoing is arguably as good as Memories Of Love. [No.99, p.54]
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Jun 4, 2013Not everything here works.... The rest, delightfully, sounds like nothing else around.
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Jun 4, 2013Few bands are clever enough to make you feel giddy singing a song called “Keep Your Children in a Coma.” Gonson, as usual, is a refreshingly natural singer, bringing heart and soul to songs that would seem to be bereft of such qualities.
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Jun 4, 2013Few songwriters can capture the bleak comedy of loneliness, bitterness, and the sheer helplessness that accompanies aging than Merritt, and he does so here with great aplomb.
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UncutJul 10, 2013Partygoing contains a handful of vintage Merritt moments. [Aug 2013, p.71]
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Jun 10, 2013On the one hand, Partygoing is refreshingly in sync with the group’s first two albums. On the other, each feels like its own concept album of sorts.
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Jun 7, 2013As always, the darkness is cut with moments of mirth, even though no one will mistake this for a dance party soundtrack.
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Jun 4, 2013Despite the fact that this new LP plays heavily to Merritt’s inclinations toward kid-on-a-carousel constructions, he’s continued to write what he knows--gearing his lyrics toward aging, loss, death, and romantic dissolution.
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Jul 26, 2013The Future Bible Heroes' first outing since 2002's uneven Eternal Youth does offer up slightly more catchy melodies and deadpan quotables than Love at the Bottom of the Sea.