Name: What Goes up Must Calm Down
Brand: Magic Marker Records
SKU: 700393
Price: 12.62 USD
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What Goes up Must Calm Down

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Album: What Goes up Must Calm Down
#	Song Title	Time
1)	You're Beautiful
2)	All Stars
3)	Capitol Between Brakes
4)	Gun Tootin' Hooligans
5)	Mountain of Tics
6)	Decapitated
7)	Missed Misses
8)	Everything Is Black
9)	Dear Leibniz
10)	Try Too Hard
11)	I Hear It But I Don't Like It
12)	Nosebleeders on the Tracks
13)	Dexter's Got a Sinister Heart
14)	Nothing Will Ever Happen
15)	Lose the Downside

Album: What Goes up Must Calm Down
#	Song Title	Time
1)	You're Beautiful
2)	All Stars
3)	Capitol Between Brakes
4)	Gun Tootin' Hooligans
5)	Mountain of Tics
6)	Decapitated
7)	Missed Misses
8)	Everything Is Black
9)	Dear Leibniz
10)	Try Too Hard
11)	I Hear It But I Don't Like It
12)	Nosebleeders on the Tracks
13)	Dexter's Got a Sinister Heart
14)	Nothing Will Ever Happen
15)	Lose the Downside

Performer Notes

The Faintest Ideas: Joel G?rsch, Christoffer L?rkner, Daniel Svanhog, Martin Cannert.
Describing the Faintest Ideas as reminiscent of what might happen if Robert Smith fronted the Clean after they'd all pounded a few cups of espresso is reasonably accurate, but it also shortchanges the high-spirited fun and genuine charm of the group's debut album, 2007's What Goes Up Must Calm Down. While the Faintest Ideas have clear influences in smart, fast indie pop (with a dash of noise added for seasoning), the band's palpable enthusiasm rings clear on all 15 songs (which zip by in less than 29 minutes), and the jagged ring of Christoffer L?rkner and Daniel Svanh?g's guitars mesh with an unexpected precision that indicates beneath their frantic exterior, these four young Swedes have no shortage of imagination as well as a clear sonic game plan. And when they sing things like "There's nothing wrong with wearing the same T-shirt day after day," "We are the sissies they call lame," or "Your poems are still quite bad, but not as bad as this," the Faintest Ideas celebrate their geekiness with such a glorious and unselfconscious joy that it's hard to imagine anyone not being won over by them -- not since Jonathan Richman or the Feelies has anyone in rock & roll made their social ineptitude sound so palpable, and so curiously hip at the same time. It's hard to imagine what the approval of indie pop fanatics around the world might do to a band with an outlook like this, but What Goes Up Must Calm Down captures the Faintest Ideas in a state of gleeful innocence, and it's a truly splendid introduction. ~ Mark Deming