FORSAKEN Proudly Presents
Artist : Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
Album : Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
Label : Vanguard Records
Genre : Rock
Source : CD
Street Date : 2014-10-14
Quality : 967 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Size : 271.09 MB
The eponymous debut album from the Jacks Mannequin and Something
Corporate mastermind under the Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
moniker, McMahon taps into his more commercial sensibilities and
pulls out a ten-track set of Fun.-, Killers-, and Passion
Pit-inspired pop confections that are as effortlessly breezy and
melodic as they are steeped in carefully constructed melodrama
Opener "Canyon Moon" sets the tone with a punchy, Twin Peaks-ian
tale of a lost girl that sounds like Coldplay distilled through
the fat, foamy, factory-provided headphones that used to
accompany the yellow Sony Sports Walkman there is a distinct
overly-serious, yet oddly comforting retro mid80s vibe at work
here that more or less permeates the entire album but McMahon
saves the real earworm for the second course; "Cecilia and the
Satellite," with its tried and true romantic grandstanding and
big, Bastille-inspired group vocals, seems destined for a run of
similarly themed movie trailers, and it helps to propel the
listener through lesser, though by no means dreadful, cuts like
High Dive" and the sad-sack "See Her on the Weekend." McMahon's
spot-on, self-effacing lyrics fit right in with the post-emo
millennial overshare persuasion, and his penchant for on-the-nose
phrasing and big pop moments would be grating if those instincts
weren't so sharply honed and the sugary results so immaculately
delivered. He may be in the wilderness emotionally, but his songs
reside firmly beneath the bright lights of the city, where love
death, laughter, and heartache are most likely to fester
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