Capgun Coup - Maudlin
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RIYL
The StrokesThe Whigs
The Replacements
Release Date
11/03/2008
Label
Team LoveTracklist
1. Computer Screens And TVs2. Sitting on the Sidewalk
3. Ari Are We?
4. Got Alot of Gull
5. Only the Times are Changing
6. Fishlip
7. I Wish I Was a Fag
8. Now That I'm Home
9. Farnam Street?
10. Pretty City
11. Bad Bands
12. For Fish
13. When Im' Gone
14. Breaks no Heart of Mine
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The short biography of Capgun Coup on their record label’s artists page starts out with an interesting thought: “The members of Capgun Coup are not the most well-versed students of rock music.” The reason this is so interesting is because I really want to complain about how derivative their sound is. I want to let everybody know how sick I am of this played out lo-fi sound, and that I was sick of it six or seven years ago. I want to repeat over and over again that I’ve heard it all before.
I want to complain that I hear The Libertines aping The Buzzcocks on the first track, “Computer Screens and TV’s” or The Strokes doing their best Velvet Underground impression on the second track “Sitting on the Sidewalk.” I want to complain that “Ari Are We” sounds like Bob Dylan if he was from the East Village instead of the West Village. I want to point out that “Got a Lot of Gull” sounds an awful lot like fellow mid-westerners The Replacements. Even by the eighth track, “No that I’m Home”, I want to complain that it sounds way too much like The Violent Femmes.
The problem – as I’m sitting here listening to Maudlin for the umpteenth time this week – is that it’s actually pretty enjoyable. Despite their shortcomings in originality, Capgun Coup is a really good band. Songs like “Sitting on the Sidewalk”, “Ari Are We”, and the folk-tinged closer “Breaks no Heart of Mine” show a knack for songwriting that most bands never achieve.
--Scott Barrett
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