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Album: Poorly Formed
# Song Title   Time
1)    Librarians Are Hiding Something More Info... 0:02
2)    Brains More Info... 0:03
3)    Stuck in a Circle More Info... 0:02
4)    Pour Beans More Info... 0:01
5)    I'm a Little Bit Country More Info... 0:02
6)    In a Video More Info... 0:01
7)    Poorly Formed More Info... 0:02
8)    Greener Grass More Info... 0:02
9)    Temporary Contemporary More Info... 0:02
10)    Take a Walk With the Postman More Info... 0:02
11)    Military Barbara Billingsley More Info... 0:02
12)    Dreadlock Dread Reggae More Info... 0:01
13)    The Fake Rat of Dave Navarro More Info... 0:02
14)    Sevita Sing More Info... 0:02
 
Album: Poorly Formed
# Song Title   Time
1)    Librarians Are Hiding Something More Info... 0:02
2)    Brains More Info... 0:03
3)    Stuck in a Circle More Info... 0:02
4)    Pour Beans More Info... 0:01
5)    I'm a Little Bit Country More Info... 0:02
6)    In a Video More Info... 0:01
7)    Poorly Formed More Info... 0:02
8)    Greener Grass More Info... 0:02
9)    Temporary Contemporary More Info... 0:02
10)    Take a Walk With the Postman More Info... 0:02
11)    Military Barbara Billingsley More Info... 0:02
12)    Dreadlock Dread Reggae More Info... 0:01
13)    The Fake Rat of Dave Navarro More Info... 0:02
14)    Sevita Sing More Info... 0:02
 
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  • Personnel: Darius Koski (vocals, guitar, violin, viola, accordion, keyboards, percussion); Jack Dalrymple (vocals, guitar); Miles Peck (vocals, cello, percussion); Johnny Bonnel (vocals); Greg McEntee (drums, percussion).
  • Audio Mixer: Chris Dugan.
  • Recording information: Motor Studios, San Francisco, CA (06/2012-07/2012).
  • Photographer: Jesse Nabers.
  • Though the band's sound shifted in a more rootsy, Americana-inspired direction on 2011's Here, Under Protest, ever-versatile punk stalwarts Swingin' Utters shift gears yet again on their eighth album, Poorly Formed. Once again shaping its sound around the influences that helped to create punk, the band moves its focus away from early rock to proto-punk, drawing inspiration from the sounds of the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers and coming up with a refreshingly different album in the process. While Poorly Formed still finds Swingin' Utters working at a modern punk pace, the tools of their trade -- the motoric, mostly clean guitars and lockstep rhythms -- provide the album with a feeling best described as vintage. This new sound is really put through its paces on songs like "Brains" and "A Walk with the Postman," which find the band injecting its proto-punk experimentations with a bit of pacing, with infectiously catchy results. Fans of the band's older work will be happy to know that the album isn't a complete reinvention, and the Utters still find plenty of opportunities to indulge their street punk, roots rock, and more country-leaning tendencies, with songs like "Stuck in a Circle" and "Greener Grass" providing a tangible link to their last album. At the end of the day, a band that's been around as long as Swingin' Utters can either break up, just keep doing the same old thing year after year, or try to keep changing things up. Fortunately for us, the band has chosen the latter of the three. ~ Gregory Heaney
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