New Promise Ring full-length. This new record on the Anti-label is very different from all their previous works, as it's more experimental and uses more instruments and different song structures. Even the vocals are totally different. This time, it's more smooth singing rather than the folk-ish tellings of before. Musically, it's still all about catchy melodies. "Forget every double-hyphenated-muso-modifier you've ever heard. It's time to put that stuff on the side and get back to what that counts: songs...   [ read more ]

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Debut full-length by this Milwaukee, WI band that writes the songs that make the whole world sing. Recorded at Idful Studios with Casey Rice (LIZ PHAIR, SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE, TORTOISE) behind the board.

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Unfortunately, you will never see the Promise Ring the way they were in the days of Thirty Degrees Everywhere, but you can at least appreciate the good parts of what they have become. Their emotionally tense and sentimental edge has pretty much entirely disappeared; everything is happy, bouncy, and catchy as hell, which isn't always a bad thing. This excessively poppy direction that the Promise Ring boys take throughout this entire record was heavily hinted at on their three-song EP {^Boys & Girls...   [ read more ]

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