''Generals'' is the second studio album by the
indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and sub ...
band
The Mynabirds
The Mynabirds are an American indie pop band founded by singer-songwriter and pianist Laura Burhenn, who was previously one half of the Washington, D.C. indie duo Georgie James. Burhenn formed The Mynabirds in 2009, and shortly after signed to ...
.
It was released by
Saddle Creek Records on June 5, 2012 and produced by
Richard Swift.
The album's title was inspired by
Richard Avedon's photograph "Generals of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in the United States' efforts towards independence.
A non-profit group, they promote ...
".
Track listing
All songs written by Laura Burhenn, except where noted.
Reception
On
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). M ...
, ''Generals'' has an average score of 79 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Eric Harvey, writing for
Pitchfork, praised the album as "a stylistically diverse collection of openhearted, politically engaged pop", adding that Burhenn succeeds in "translating
erdeeply held political conventions into good tunes".
In a similarly positive review for
Consequence of Sound, Tony Hardy also comments on the political nature of the lyrics, stating that Burhenn "juxtaposes the privileged, regal ladies of Avedon’s portrait with those she considers to be true daughters of the revolution, the likes, say, of
Rosa Parks or
Naomi Wolf."
Drake Baer of
Paste described ''Generals'' as "
urhenn'smilitant, heartfelt, frustrated pacifism
..set into pop convention".
References
External links
*
Generals' on ''Allmusic''
2012 albums
The Mynabirds albums
Albums produced by Richard Swift (singer-songwriter)
Saddle Creek Records albums
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