30 Year Low
Low Transit Industri
INDIE
Eight albums and ten years into their career, 2007 sees The Mendoza Line call it a day. This is the final record for the band & is their most crushingly beautiful to date…30 Year Low marks the end of band-mates Tim Bracy and Shannon McArdle’s marriage and artistic collaboration. As a follow up to the critically acclaimed 2003 release Full of Light and Full of Fire, the new album accrues to a sense of fear and anxiety about the aging of both our bodies and our social institutions. Setting aside personal strife the band continues as ever to co-mingle the personal and the political, documenting the disenfranchised and working poor.
Whether personal or political, literal or metaphoric, Bracy and McArdle’s dueling narratives feel like a punch to the throat. McArdle works her early Liz Phair vocals against Bracy’s bluesy rasp, each songwriter trading off as lead vocalist. The album features Okkervil River’s Will Sheff guest-duetting with Shannon McArdle on a rowdy roadhouse stomper that’s part Born to Run-era Springsteen, part vintage Replacements. Released along with the mini-album is the STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION bonus disc The Final Remarks of the Legendary Malcontent which draws inspiration from the sort of cut and paste Dylan, Stones, and Replacements bootleg albums which jogged the band’s imagination as teenaged music obsessives pouring over dusty record collections.
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