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(Album: The Hungarian Suicide Songbook)
I've Always Been A Loser
(Album: The Hungarian Suicide Songbook)
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The Hungarian Suicide Songbook
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The Hungarian Suicide Songbook, combines Jared
Mills's irreverent and husky vocals with soulful synths and ragged guitars
to create a record brimming with ultra-catchy gems that are at once more
dark and more immediate than previous songs. Add a monster behind the
drums kit and a wall of angelic/ demonic backup vocals, and you’re almost
halfway to describing the true character of the album. Filled with a
visceral energy usually associated with hip-hop and R&B, The
Hungarian Suicide Songbook
is a departure not just for Man Plus,
but the Seattle music scene as well. With standout tracks like
"Not for all the cocaine in the world," the music of Man Plus
appeals to pop fans and non-pop fans alike. As Man Plus succinctly
declares on the new album “If you’re down all the time, you’re our
kind of people.”
We Had No Sex
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We Had No Sex marks the debut E.P. from Seattle's
finest purveyors of pretty, clever, and terribly depressing music.
The songs on We Had No Sex aim to be as resonant in their doleful
simplicity as any
feature-length post-modern melodrama. Each Man Plus song manages to take your
most closely held memories, secrets and fears and guides you further
and further back with endless, heartbreaking choruses.
Man Plus is all about embracing the failure in everyday life
and experiment in distorted, drunken chaos, loud guitars, menacing bass, and
unstoppable rhythms. These depressed and depressing drawing room dirges
wring regret from the coldest and oldest of hearts, but with an ass-shaking
glory that is undeniable.
The irony-free album turns up the guitars and turns down the keyboards.
Where once Man Plus would throw an odd piano ballad into the mix to offer
a respite from the barrage of loud bile-filled songs, no such release is
found on We Had No Sex. The album marches on regardless of how deep it goes,
or how far it goes. It runs through 1960's styled pop, hardcore, and dance,
all husky, whispered secrets and screaming accusations.
We Had No Sex is deceptively potent; in less than twenty minutes it shows what
happens when gender, violence, love and alcohol become interchangeable.
We Had No Sex is all about getting a little bit older and a little bit closer
to death. It is the aural equivalent of realizing that you can no longer go
playing in those fields, resolved, somewhat remorseful and shooting back
an unwavering, crushing gaze.
You Smell Pretty When You Stop Yelling
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You Smell Pretty When You Stop Yelling,
is the end result of summer
recording sessions that yielded over 100 songs. Out of those songs,
20 were chosen in the final cut. Soft and subtle, you smell pretty
when you stop yelling is the kind of record that unwinds its
treasures with each new listen, and is best enjoyed over multiple
listens and, unsurprisingly, many glasses of wine. ManPlus mew
coquettishly, stroking their guitars, pounding their keyboards,
banging their drums and cawing bizarre stories about love, death,
and body parts: theirs is a rancid and beautiful landscape.