The Daily Spin, May 11
MisterWives | Our Own House
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Album: Our Own House (2015)
Artist: MisterWives
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You ever get drop-kicked in the chest back to your high school graduation with the opening notes of an album? I hadn’t until hearing this one and then suddenly I was seventeen again. Wild feeling.
I haven’t ever listened to this album through, I don’t think - and if I have, it’s been long enough that I have no memory of it, so effectively the same thing. It’s interesting to see how the two tracks I’m familiar with are effectively ambassadors for the bombastic sort of power pop that MisterWives fly through the entire album.
Listening to the choruses of ‘Our Own House’ and ‘Reflections’, you might be pardoned for thinking that it’d take a fair bit to surpass this sort of energy, and yet MisterWives do that with abandon. I’ll be the first to note that it doesn’t always work - on ‘Best I Can Do’ it feels uncomfortably frantic, and when almost the entire album is stomping on the gas, all you’re doing is wearing down your fuel tank.
That’s why a song like ‘Coffins’ is so needed, because it’s a brilliant tempo switch - and I only wish they utilized it more, because the breath you so sorely need listening to this album’s first half is only really sated with this one instance before you’re right back at it again.
Rating: 7.9/10
Best Tracks: Reflections; Our Own House
Worst Tracks: Best I Can Do