American Pleasure Club - a whole fucking lifetime of this (2018)
American Pleasure Club - a whole fucking lifetime of this (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:35:28 | 192 Mb
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Emo | Label: Run For Cover Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:35:28 | 192 Mb
Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Emo | Label: Run For Cover Records
The band formerly known as Teen Suicide has a fresh outlook on life. Their new album might be the best thing frontman Sam Ray has made so far.Tracklist:
Sam Ray seems relatively happy. He’s married, knows some cute dogs, had a lovely little Christmas. And the oldest of the prolific Baltimore musician’s three core projects has changed its name, from Teen Suicide to American Pleasure Club—maybe not quite a 180 degree turn, but at least a hard 90. Earlier this month, in a tweet thread that approached Kanye levels of grandiosity, he congratulated himself and his bandmates, Sean Mercer, Daniel Windsor, and Nick Hughes, for their first proper album under the new name, A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This. Ray rejoiced in having finally allowed himself to make art without the encumbrance of “apathy, fear, [and] anxiety,” and said that this was only the beginning of a new phase for him.
Which is not to say his new record is not filled with apathy, fear, or anxiety. Yet it’s also among his prettiest and least chaotic albums, even as it jumps wildly from the emotional frankness of post-emo, to the gleeful candy of hip-hop beats and samples, to quiet folk, and finally to what has long been Ray’s wheelhouse—his take on the more outré experiments of ’90s and early-aughts indie rock. If you were familiar with Teen Suicide’s past output, or the music he’s made with Ricky Eat Acid and Julia Brown, you already know that he’s as casually dismissive of genre as any SoundCloud rapper, that his albums are collages that would make T.S. Eliot gape (and not only because Ray’s general fuck-it-all posturing would unsettle any member of the early-20th-century gentry). Still, coming in at a cool 35 minutes, A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This is Ray’s most coherent album. His self-congratulation may be grating, but he’s not wrong that this might be the best thing he’s made so far.
The record’s sequencing is somewhat inscrutable. The two most obviously hip-hop influenced songs, “Sycamore” and “Lets Move to the Desert,” are two of its best. But they’re grouped together in the middle, when either could have provided a jolt to the album’s less memorable back half. As it stands, one of the few upbeat songs in the record’s final quarter is “Just a Mistake,” a misguided slice of big beat that sounds like Aaron Maine of Porches being drowned alive by the reunited members of the Prodigy.
Still, there’s an emotional logic at play, if not necessarily a musical one. Even as he moves into his late twenties, Ray remains as combustible as an adolescent, and his ability to channel his feels productively leads to potent songs like “This Is Heaven & I’d Die For It,” a straightforward pop-punk anthem about the excitement of illicit pleasure. That crashes directly into the first of the full-length ballads, “All the Lonely Nights in Your Life,” about the more tender and (not to be all Love Actually about it but) vastly more terrifying thrill of falling in love. Then we move to the chipmunk soul of “Sycamore,” followed by “Lets Move to the Desert,” which uses a sample of Frank Ocean’s cover of “At Your Best (You Are Love)” so deftly that it only feels like a minor blasphemy to call it Dilla-esque.
Ray’s gift for arresting imagery gives many of his songs a quiet profundity that’s at odds with his online persona. The droning “Seemed Like the Whole World Was Lost,” with Beirut-brand horns played by Spencer Radcliffe, might feel tiresome were it not for sparely-drawn scenes like the one in which Ray’s nose starts to bleed, he loses the feeling in his hand and feet and, hauntingly, “the bicycle kids rush in.” (Bikes and bloody noses crop up elsewhere, funny motifs coming from someone who claims to hate “Stranger Things”.)
As his stubborn unwillingness to change his band name to something other than (for God’s sakes) Teen Suicide up until this year suggests, Ray has a talent for undermining himself. He is a strong and curious musician and a good songwriter, one who glories in the bounty of inspirations, musical and otherwise, available online, mining them expertly to make daringly original songs. With his new album, he’s gotten out of his own way long enough to put together a collection of very strong tracks, with only one real misstep. Now, is A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This “ESSENTIAL LISTENING FOR ANYONE WITH A SINGLE SHRED OF LIFE IN THEM,” as Ray has said? No. I mean, no. Not at all. But it’s a pretty good record.
1. florida (voicemail) (01:18)
2. this is heaven & id die for it (04:03)
3. all the lonely nights in your life (02:44)
4. sycamore (02:55)
5. lets move to the desert (03:43)
6. there was a time when i needed it (02:52)
7. seemed like the whole world was lost (03:01)
8. new years eve (02:14)
9. before my telephone rings (01:47)
10. just a mistake (03:10)
11. eating cherries (03:44)
12. the sun was in my eyes (03:58)
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American Pleasure Club / a whole fucking lifetime of this
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American Pleasure Club / a whole fucking lifetime of this
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