Wow. This is an impressively awful song. I mean, I liked Modest Mouse, and I love Americana, but Christ this is a bad song. Its not the poor production quality, that can be charming. It’s more the uninspired melody, sang quirkily to cover up for it, combined with the painfully boring and sub-par-even-for-an-amateur mando tediously tinkering between two tortured chords, and the trumpet part that was obviously conceived circa 5 minutes before recording. I’m sorry to “hate” and I rarely leave comments on these things (I think this is only the second comment I’ve ever written), but I signed up right now just to leave this one. As a mando player, and a trumpet player and a singer writing songs in this genre, I just felt it had to be said.
Wow. This is an impressively awful song. I mean, I liked Modest Mouse, and I love Americana, but Christ this is a bad song. Its not the poor production quality, that can be charming. It’s more the uninspired melody, sang quirkily to cover up for it, combined with the painfully boring and sub-par-even-for-an-amateur mando tediously tinkering between two tortured chords, and the trumpet part that was obviously conceived circa 5 minutes before recording. I’m sorry to “hate” and I rarely leave comments on these things (I think this is only the second comment I’ve ever written), but I signed up right now just to leave this one. As a mando player, and a trumpet player and a singer writing songs in this genre, I just felt it had to be said.