The Daily Spin, April 4
The Happy Fits | What Could Be Better
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023. We’ve made it through the first quarter!
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite song from each album right here.
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Album: What Could Be Better (2020)
Artist: The Happy Fits
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I was a little worried about this one, when I heard the first song. It didn’t really mesh with what I knew of The Happy Fits, and frankly, I didn’t think much of it as a tune. It had me wondering if I was about to slog through the next half-hour.
Thankfully, the rest of the album proved me entirely wrong, a blissful half-hour of indie rock far more in line with what I’ve come to love about this group’s music, heartstring-tugging lyrics under wickedly placed instrumentation. It’s the anxiety of never feeling quite good enough, the tremor under my own heartbeat that I know so very well, pulled into a frenetic rock segment.
Each song feels deliberately structured - not so much in the sense of precision, which wouldn’t work well for the type of music curated by this album - but in the sense that every move feels almost chess-like in the thought given to it.
Rating: 8.8/10
Best Tracks: No Instructions; Hold Me Down; Get a Job
Worst Tracks: Go Dumb