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The title track opens with a spoken word section over droning instrumentals, a brave choice for your first EP. But then, Folly Group appear to be a brave band. Their music is filled with off-kilter grooves that are somehow tight as hell while sounding like they are about to fall apart. "Butt No Rifle" is a standout track that perfectly encapsulates this aspect of Folly Group's music. Shifting guitar riffs underscore obscure lyricism about "cowboy shit" and surrendering to love, directed by the locked in rhythm section. "Butt No Rifle" is a certain standout, but this EP packs a punch in it's short runtime. The moment when the distorted bass and drums kick in on "Awake and Hungry", the laserlike synths that ripple throughout "Ripples", the pulsing preaching of "Four Wheel Drive". These, among others, show that this EP is full of great individual moments. Luckily the songwriting skills on display here means that these mom...

  Welcome back to Revisitation Nation, a series of posts where I talk about band's lesser-loved work and consider whether it deserves a revisit. So far it's a series of one,  starring The Killers . No more will that post be lonely, as today I will discuss Modest Mouse's follow-up to "the album with Float On", We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. To be honest, if I can speak on the future of this series, it's gonna have a lot of the flowchart below going on.  Band floats under the radar in the indie scene releasing critically acclaimed work > Band has a breakout work that actually hits the charts > Band tries to follow it up with mixed results from the public. Unlike Wonderful Wonderful however, I am not writing this with curiosity in mind. I am not writing this with doubt that this is a project perhaps not worth embarking on. I am writing this with full throated praise. If Good News For People Who Love Bad News (aka the album with float on on it) is t...