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we can work it out, let's just leave the house everything we think we know we think we know I tried to leave the room but you were anchored to the floor your heart's been buried beneath the floorboards
rchrd prkr Bandcamp / Facebook / it’s getting worse album
Album Review:
rchrd prkr - “It’s Getting Worse” (Release Date - July 6th, 2015)
Rchrd prkr seems to have mastered the art of catching attention in most ways possible--poetic lyrics, hooky guitar parts, catchy choruses-- all while sitting on the good side of the fine line between boring and easy to listen to. In fact, their latest release, “It’s Getting Worse” was so easy to listen to that I played it on repeat probably 5 times while I was writing this review and didn’t get close to sick of it. Listeners often find themselves skipping through new releases, wondering when something eventful will happen to make them stop skipping, but when a record opens the lyrics, “Who are you, and what’s your name? I feel like I’ve met you before”, you honestly don’t have much of a choice but to continue listening. The four piece indie rockers open the record with “Another Try”, which is immediately reminiscent of “This Is a Long Drive” era Modest Mouse. The approach they take to writing this track and the whole record is chaotic but also relaxed, and done in a way that comes off more strategic and well planned.
As you get further and further into the record, you start to notice a trend within the lyrical content of all the songs that contrasts well with the music, in which vocalist Miles Campbell is openly making a plea to work out a dispute with a fading lover and coping with the fact that whoever he is singing about may not want to do that. This is the definition of a group of people who don’t have to try hard to make sickeningly good music, and that’s the exact beauty I find in the band. Their musical styles can range from slower, more relaxed A Great Big Pile of Leaves sounding parts, to more punky, fast Descendents sounding parts, all while being seamlessly sewn together by originality in between, wrapped up with climaxing group vocals for all you live sing-along fans!
I give “It’s Getting Worse” an 8/10 and think these dudes have a real shot at being Donovan Wolfington’s newest favorite band, if they can put out another solid release to follow this one up.
Pick up the album on cassette or digital download at https://rchrdprkr.bandcamp.com/
Review by Matt D.
One o dem new @rchrdprkr songs.
Put together another live sess with the boys in rchrdprkr before they write too many many new songs and stop playing the classics like this.
rchrdprkr is pretty much a hardcore band now
feels like you're everywhere and nowhere at all
tapes are a thing that you can now buy! special thanks to Brady from Special Death/Yrs.
pick one up at a show or order online here: https://rchrdprkr.bandcamp.com/album/its-getting-worse
Rchrd Prkr
7/31/2015 (”It’s Getting Worse” Release Show)
The People’s Warehouse
Oakland PA
