Come Pick Me Up --- Superchunk

Every two years I'm in an odd-numbered grade and a Superchunk record is released.

I will not refer to the band "maturing" (whatever the fuck that means) because I've read it in every goddamned review of this (great) record. The dumbest thing I've read about the band and this record is that you can't tell 1999 Superchunk was ever 1990 Superchunk.

Bullshit. Superchunk is Superchunk and, try as they might, no band will ever be quite like them.

This record had to grow on me, but, in all honesty, it's a great CD. And I have something nice to say about Jim O'Rourke.

Remember on "Here's WHere The Strings COme In", the guitar solos would be trebly and feedback in this really peculiar way? I've always really like that. Anyway, those now-trademark SC solos show up. This time, discordant horns and strings are overdubbed on top of the solos, playing them note-for-note with the guitars.

Sounds cheesy as hell, right? It works really well.

This record is not the sound of a band getting older, it's the sound of a band that's made a great record. Record critics can kiss my white ass. (Merge Records, PO Box 1235 Chapel Hill NC 27514, www.mrg2000.com, www.superchunk.com)

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Mike Keegan
9.6.1999

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