Mt. Joy - Rearrange Us (Review)
Mt. Joy - Rearrange Us (Review)
6/9/20
DISCLAIMER: Happy 6/9 day haha lol funny number lmao!
Last Friday, on June 5th, American Indie Folk-Rock act Mt. Joy released their long-awaited sophomore LP: Rearrange Us. This album certainly contributes to another rant I’m planning about too many singles being released before albums, so I’ll discuss its eight out of thirteen singles at a different time. This album opens with the powerful and astounding ballad “Bug Eyes”. The singing and lyrics are touching and undoubtably beautiful. This, right here, is how you start a damn album. Afterwards comes the adorable little soulful groove that is the title track “Rearrange Us”. It seems to set the happy and more upbeat yet slow tone that a lot of the singles carried along with them. Afterwards comes the Jason Mraz-style interlude “Have Faith”; a cute little electric and very sweet short song.
Next comes “My Vibe”, which is a pretty good song, but probably my least favorite on the album thus far. The outro and bridge section, though, are certainly the parts where the song shines. Next comes “Let Loose”; a single I remember listening to, but also forget. It’s certainly not terrible, and it feels like a song from another artist I can’t really seem to put my finger on. It’s pretty slow, until the very loud and awesome breakdown towards the last minute-or-so of the song. Next comes what seems to be the most beautiful song on the album “Every Holiday”. It’s mostly acoustic guitar, aside from grand piano chords to compliment it, and a plethora of pretty harmonies. This was easily my favorite single, and is probably my favorite song up to this part in the album.
After this comes what is probably one of my less-favorite songs “Come With Me”. The a cappella intro sounds cool, but the rest of the songs sounds like slightly generic Mt. Joy. Next comes a song I’m very fond of “Death”; an ironically upbeat and pretty song. At track nine, we’re given “Acrobats”, which is a very nice song, with yet another big breakdown for the song’s bridge. Afterwards, we see “Witness”, just yet another sweet acoustic song from this album. Yet another song with beautiful lyrics and a pretty tone. After comes a song that sounds like the most beautiful demo in existence “Us”: an undeniably pretty short song. At track twelve, comes another beautiful short song “Become”. It’s frankly hard to express how much I adore these little short songs. Finally comes what seems to be the lead single “Strangers”; a three-minute groovy little single that I certainly don’t have a problem with. This ends the album with a very upbeat tone, which I think fits the rest of this album pretty well.
Thank you for reading this review. It was much more track-by-track than the Hayley Williams review, but this was only because this album just didn’t have very many talking points other than that it was an amazing folk album. Of course the album did have a few songs that seemed like downsides, but overall, the album was still great. In retrospect, my favorite track was “Bug Eyes” instead of “Every Holiday”. “Bug Eyes” was a near perfect opener for an album, and could feel like a whole album in itself. My least favorite track was probably “Come With Me”. This isn’t a bad song, by any means, but I wouldn’t say it’s better than any other song on this album. Giving this album a 1-10 using half numbers, I give this album an 8/10 with a five-word description of: “yet another great folk album.”
Note: In the last essay, I forgot to mention this, but my latest 32-track mixtape is out now. Here's the link to its Soundcloud page:
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