Trying To Never Catch Up - What Made Milwaukee Famous
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76 out of 100

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  • Summary: This 2004 debut album for the Austin, Texas band was re-released (with four bonus tracks mixed by Spoon's Jim Eno) in 2006 when the band signed with Barsuk.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Austin Chronicle
    89
    How a band from such an incestuous scene produced an album with such keen pop instincts that nonetheless stops well short of ripping anyone, local or national, off continues to boggle the mind.
  2. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    An album that sounds both familiar and fresh and entirely entertaining.
  3. All Music Guide
    80
    It's clear from the first notes of Trying to Never Catch Up that this is a band that knows what they're doing, and is pretty damn sure about it, too.
  4. Prefix Magazine
    60
    The sing-alongs abound and the keyboard definitely calls for some attention from the dance floor, but the redundancy of these twelve songs is bound to induce a few headaches.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
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  1. tanner
    9
    I enjoy this album more each time I listen to it. The tracks 'Hellodrama" and "Almost Always Never" are catchy tunes, which you'll be singing in your head.… Collapse
  2. LucasK
    9
    ALmost All of the songs are very entertaining and modern, mostly catchy. A great Power-Pop album IDECIDE is my favorite song for this year.
  3. TBOne
    8
    Suprisingly good album . Better than i was expecting.

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