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''Someday Everything Will Be Fine'' is the fifth
studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
by American alternative rock band
Spider Bags Spider Bags is an alternative rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The band was founded by Daniel McGee and Gregg Levy in 2006 after McGee's old band, the DC Snipers, broke up. Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles has described Spide ...
. It was released on August 3, 2018, by
Merge Records Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as an outlet for music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expande ...
.


Production

The album was recorded at Bunker Audio in Memphis, Tennessee, with producer Andrew McCalla, and features collaborations with Jack Oblivian, John Whittemore, Jana Misener, Krista Wroten-Combest,
Patrick Stickles Patrick Stickles (born July 28, 1985) is an American musician and the lead singer, frontman, and songwriter of New Jersey-based punk rock band Titus Andronicus. Stickles grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey and graduated from Glen Rock High School as ...
and Matthew Hoopengardner.


Release

On June 20, 2018, Spider Bags announced the release of their fifth studio album, along with the single "Cop Dream/Black Eye". On July 30, 2018, the music video to "Oxcart Blues" was released, with director Malachi Cull.


Critical reception

''Someday Everything Will Be Fine'' was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81 based on 7 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 75 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 6 reviews. Mark Deming of AllMusic noted how the band sounded a "little less punk and a bit more rock" on the release, while explaining the album "is an object lesson in how maturity and progress don't have to be the enemies of snarky, passionate rock & roll, and this is music that satisfies on several levels at once." Barry Vitus from '' Blurt'' gave the release five out of five stars, explaining that it "injected a new, creative energy into the band. The chemistry imbued by the helping hands and producer were significant to the end product." Writer Michael Hann of '' The Guardian'' gave the album four out of five stars, noting "their fifth album sound more of-the-moment than the previous four, not least because its opening track, Reckless, perfectly embodies that heavy, heavy slacker sound."


Track listing


Personnel

Band members * Dan McGee – guitar, vocals * Steve Oliva – bass, backing vocals * Gregg Levy – guitar * Rock Forbes – drums Additional musicians * Jerry Hayes – backing vocals * Joseph Plunket – backing vocals *
Patrick Stickles Patrick Stickles (born July 28, 1985) is an American musician and the lead singer, frontman, and songwriter of New Jersey-based punk rock band Titus Andronicus. Stickles grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey and graduated from Glen Rock High School as ...
– backing vocals, guitar * Seth Moody – clavinet * Jack Oblivian – guitar * Tahr McGee – piano * Jana Misener – backing vocals, cello * Matt Hoopengardner – backing vocals, guitar * Krista Wroten-Combest – violin, backing vocals Production * Andrew McCalla – engineer, mixing, producer * Wesley Wolfe – mastering, mixing


References

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