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MUMBLE AND PEG
All My Waking Moments In A Jar
Vaccination Records
www.vacrec.com
I'm not sure I could dislike anything Mumble and Peg put out. I tried to dislike this record, mostly because I thought their previous release (This
Ungodly Hour, also on Vaccination Records) was about as perfect a record as you could make, and I was hoping that this new release would sound exactly as the one before it. However, "All My Waking
Moments..." did more than grow on me-it got me humming its angry, dark melodies during my morning walks, it got me aching to play it on a regular basis instead of listening to all the new music I was supposed
to be paying attention to. Frontman Erik Carter manipulates tension beautifully in these creepy, eerie songs about--well, I don't know what they're actually about, but I'm awfully glad they're not about me-set
against a complex backdrop of acoustic guitar-and-piano ballads, Bowie-esque riffs and arrangements, metal-era power chords, and the smoky melancholy of good roots music.
Holly Day
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