''The Self-Titled Album'' is an album by Appleton, Wisconsin-based rock group
Tenement
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. It was co-released in July 2016 by Forward Records and
Deranged Records
Deranged Records is a Canadian punk rock, punk record label based in Roberts Creek, British Columbia. It was founded in 1999 by Gordon Dufresne. Notable bands who have had releases with the label are Fucked Up, Career Suicide and Brutal Knights. T ...
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following the release of a cassette version that the band wrote and recorded in the span of a week ahead of an East Coast tour in 2015.
Reception
The New York Times: "It doesn’t have the same power as a self-contained document of the double album, but it satisfies the urge to hear more of Mr. Pitsch’s rough perfectionism."
Sorry State Records: "The Self-Titled Album also feels kind of disorienting, but with a considerably shorter running length it at least gives off the surface impression of being more digestible. If you never liked Tenement before, I doubt that The Self-Titled Album is going to be the record that flips you since the rather slick production and Amos's distinctive singing style style still fly in the face of punk's cult of lo-fi. However, if you're a Tenement fan (particularly of their post-Napalm Dream material), this is an essential record, more immediate and, in a way at least, even more adventurous and free than Predatory Headlights."
In an article referring to Tenement albums as 'unsteady affairs', ''
Columbus Alive
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'' called ''The Self-Titled Album'' 's "Lonesome Crying Eyes" a 'tear-in-your-beer ballad' and "The Strangest Couple In Love" a 'hooky, driving pop-rock number' while concluding that Amos Pitsch tends to channel Paul Westerberg in his 'fondness for extremes'.
Track listing
All compositions by Amos Pitsch
# "Everyone To Love You"
# "Underworld Hotel"
# "Witches In A Ritual"
# "Lonesome Crying Eyes"
# "Your Shadowed Alleyways"
# "The Strangest Couple In Love"
# "Roads Of Home"
References
External links
The Self-Titled Album at Bandcamp
2016 albums
Tenement (band) albums
Deranged Records albums
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