| Forever Sounds | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | March 4, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | Ultrasuede Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Label | Damnably, Shake It Records | |||
| Producer | Jerri Queen, John Hoffman | |||
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Forever Sounds is Wussy's sixth studio album. It was released on March 4, 2016, on Shake It Records in the United States and Damnably in the UK and Europe.[1] The album reached number 20 on the Top Heatseekers album chart.[2]
Critical reception
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100[3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Robert Christgau | A–[5] |
| Cincinnati CityBeat | (favorable)[6] |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10[7] |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.9/10[8] |
| PopMatters | [9] |
| Spin | 8/10[10] |
Upon the album's release, SPIN named Forever Sounds its Album of the Week, awarding it an 8 of 10 rating. Reviewer Jason Gubbels wrote, "The distinct pleasures of Forever Sounds remain those of all five preceding Wussy albums — a crack songwriting duo detailing adult life’s ambiguities with vivid language amid a terrific rhythm section’s unapologetic alt-slop."[10] Robert Christgau gave the album an A− and described it as "the big-guitar record I've been expecting from my favorite band since Strawberry."[5]
Track listing
- Dropping Houses (Words: Lisa Walker, Chuck Cleaver)
- She’s Killed Hundreds (Cleaver)
- Donny’s Death Scene (Walker)
- Gone (Cleaver)
- Hello, I’m a Ghost (Cleaver)
- Hand of God (Walker)
- Sidewalk Sale (Cleaver)
- Better Days (Cleaver, Walker)
- Majestic-12 (Walker)
- My Parade (Cleaver)
Music on all tracks credited to Wussy.
References
- ↑ Wussy Announce Sixth Album ‘Forever Sounds’ and Share New Track, ‘Dropping Houses’, Wussy
- ↑ "Wussy - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
- ↑ "Forever Sounds". Metacritic.
- ↑ Deming, Mark. "Forever Sounds". AllMusic.
- 1 2 Christgau, Robert (11 March 2016). "Guitar Rock Grooves". Vice. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ↑ Baker, Brian (17 February 2016). "Sounds and Furies, Signifying Everything". Cincinnati CityBeat. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ↑ Adcock, Lee (2 March 2016). "Forever Sounds Review". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ↑ Monroe, Jazz (9 March 2016). "Forever Sounds". Pitchfork Media.
- ↑ Cober-Lake, Justin (26 January 2021). "Forever Sounds Review". PopMatters (published 4 March 2016).
- 1 2 Review: Wussy’s Ragged Ohio Racket Hits Biblical Proportions on ‘Forever Sounds’.