Someday Everything Will Be Fine
| Someday Everything Will Be Fine | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | August 3, 2018 | |||
| Recorded | June 2017 – January 2018 | |||
| Studio | Bunker Audio, Memphis, Tennessee[1] | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 38:35 | |||
| Label | Merge | |||
| Spider Bags chronology | ||||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.2/10[4] |
| Metacritic | 81/100[5] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Blurt | [1] |
| Exclaim! | 8/10[6] |
| The Guardian | [7] |
| Pitchfork | 7/10[8] |
Someday Everything Will Be Fine is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Spider Bags. It was released on August 3, 2018, by Merge Records.[9]
Production
[edit]The album was recorded at Bunker Audio in Memphis, Tennessee, with producer Andrew McCalla, and features collaborations with Jack Oblivian, John Whittemore, Jana Misener, Krista Wroten-Combest, Patrick Stickles and Matthew Hoopengardner.[9]
Release
[edit]On June 20, 2018, Spider Bags announced the release of their fifth studio album, along with the single "Cop Dream/Black Eye".[9]
On July 30, 2018, the music video to "Oxcart Blues" was released, with director Malachi Cull.[10]
Critical reception
[edit]Someday Everything Will Be Fine was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81 based on 7 reviews.[5] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 75 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 6 reviews.[2]
Mark Deming of AllMusic noted how the band sounded a "little less punk and a bit more rock" on the release, while explaining the album "is an object lesson in how maturity and progress don't have to be the enemies of snarky, passionate rock & roll, and this is music that satisfies on several levels at once."[3] Barry Vitus from Blurt gave the release five out of five stars, explaining that it "injected a new, creative energy into the band. The chemistry imbued by the helping hands and producer were significant to the end product."[1] Writer Michael Hann of The Guardian gave the album four out of five stars, noting "their fifth album sound more of-the-moment than the previous four, not least because its opening track, Reckless, perfectly embodies that heavy, heavy slacker sound."[7]
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Reckless" | Dan McGee | 5:34 |
| 2. | "Oxcart Blues" | Dan McGee | 2:44 |
| 3. | "Alligator" | Joseph Plunket | 2:37 |
| 4. | "Burning Sand" | Dan McGee | 4:30 |
| 5. | "Cop Dream/Black Eye (True Story)" | Dan McGee | 0:59 |
| 6. | "My Heart Is a Flame in Reverse" | Dan McGee | 6:26 |
| 7. | "Tonight, I Walk on the Water" | Dan McGee | 1:23 |
| 8. | "Ninety Day Dog" | 4:09 | |
| 9. | "Apocalypso" | Dan McGee | 4:50 |
| 10. | "Rollin' with the Flow" | Jerry Hayes | 5:23 |
Personnel
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c Vitus, Barry. "Blurt Magazine Review". Blurt. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ a b "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ a b c Deming, Mark. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ a b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ Torrey, Owen (July 31, 2018). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim!. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ a b Hann, Michael (August 3, 2018). "Someday Everything Will Be Fine review – fuzzy veterans ride an alt-rock ripple". The Guardian. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ Savage Levenson, Max (August 8, 2018). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ a b c Schatz, Lake (June 20, 2018). "Spider Bags announce new album, Someday Everything Will Be Fine, share "Cop Dream/Black Eye (True Story)"". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ "Spider Bags - Oxcart Blues". YouTube. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
