Merge (2022)
Kind of weird to not be writing about Godzilla on Friday now. Luckily there are more Toho soundtracks on the horizon. When I wrote about the Endless Summer 7" on Monday, I had noted that I sat on it for a while and didn't write about it in a timely manner. Part of that was limited days to write about rock music while the Godzilla and Ed Lover days were taking up two of my three review spots of the week. But the other side was that I just wasn't very excited by the song. I was hopeful that I'd be more impressed with the full length. Sadly, I am not.
I don't really know what to say about Wild Loneliness. It's not like it's a bad record with bad songs. The songs themselves are beautifully written and performed. There's an attention to detail and craft that you're not going to find just anywhere, but I think what it boils down to is that I just find the record kind of boring. It's so loaded full of acoustic guitar strumming over slow tempo songs that whenever I put it on, it fades into the background and I find that I'm not paying much attention to it after a while.
There's ten songs on the album and nine of them are pretty much as I described above, slow. The only time Superchunk kicks it up a bit is on the eighth song "Refracting." It's easily the best song on the album and at least contains a little bit of the energy that is what I want out of a Superchunk record. It takes all sorts of fans to keep a band going for as long as Superchunk has been. I'm sure there will be a contingent of fans that will like this, particularly amongst the Indoor Living/Come Pick Me Up set. For me, this will just end up as a Superchunk record on my shelf as I just can't imagine picking it up when there's a double digit amount of better albums sitting right next to it.
Superchunk - Wild Loneliness:
https://superchunk.bandcamp.com/album/wild-loneliness
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