love this guy's music.
MCII is the best power pop in ages.
― nostormo, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
His Trouble In Mind label release was my fave of 2011. Looking forward to the new one - breaking my 'no records for a while' pledge for that when it comes out.
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this new album has really grown on me -- at first i thought it seemed a little watered down, but there are some great tunes here.
― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, at first it might sound like a Sloan-gone-Garage kinda thing, but the man KNOWS how to write songs.
― nostormo, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
i think i just had the ty segall shows i had seen recently ringing in my ears when i first heard it...
― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
he made a departure from sounding like Segall. good decision.
― nostormo, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
Been listening to the stream of this all last week and just got the vinyl tonite, spun it twice. Gosh it's glorious, I feel like he's really gonna break big and has bigger-than-TY potential.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:36 (eleven years ago) link
last one was great, i'll have to check this
― groovy replacement (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:36 (eleven years ago) link
vinyl arrived today, gonna be nice to blast this.
have been playing the two singles almost nonstop for weeks now. "shout it out" will be one of my songs of the year.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 07:06 (eleven years ago) link
" I feel like he's really gonna break big and has bigger-than-TY potential."
his songwriting a-la AC Newman/Shins style strengthen your theory.
― nostormo, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
Kind of enjoyed this in the sun yesterday when i was stoned, less so when sober today. bit too cheesy imo.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
Last song is so wonderful. Whole album is just a joy. Seeing him next week and cannot wait.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't heard the new one yet, but I've played the hell out of this tune for the last year or so. Totally timeless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHvcL2g_mu4
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
Nice. Was just reading Chris Richards in the Washington Post saying that Cronin's new one "might end up being the most likeable rock album of the year."
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
It makes Teenage Fanclub sound like Crass.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 13:19 (eleven years ago) link
Don't necessarily mean this in a negative way, but to me it sounds exactly like Ben Kweller!
― SA, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
the world could use lots more "Sha Sha"-era Kweller imo
― alpine static, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
LOL!
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
was rlly into this song a few years back. makes belle and sebatian sound like cannibal corpse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHFDnUEiH30
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
some funny cover choices here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/05/07/the-lagniappe-sessions-mikal-cronin/
― tylerw, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Liking "Shout it Out" from the new one a lot, and looking forward to seeing him live Friday in W. D.C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFTCkyeTuAY
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link
It sounds very muscular live - not lo-fi treble-heavy power pop at all. He's got a pretty crack band.
I find myself wondering why this guy cuts through with people and Title Tracks never has - I think Title Tracks is the better songwriting by miles (don't get me wrong, I like Cronin)
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Saw him live over the weekend and he was great. Was using Ty Segall's drummer for some reason.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 12:50 (ten years ago) link
I find myself wondering why this guy cuts through with people and Title Tracks never has Was using Ty Segall's drummer for some reason.
Was using Ty Segall's drummer for some reason.
He's Ty Segall's bass player answers both of these questions.
― wk, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
title tracks first album is stunning but i was disappointed by the second - cronin's first album is way better than it
― terbil truths (electricsound), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 00:40 (ten years ago) link
I gave this a quick listen weeks ago and it didn't leave much of an impression, but I'm thinking that maybe I should give it another go.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 01:01 (ten years ago) link
"weight" is all-time great i think, just a microcosm of everything i want out of rock music in 2013
― ciderpress, Thursday, 20 June 2013 04:34 (ten years ago) link
I like this stuff in theory but I find it ultimately to be curiously lightweight - he has all the right elements in place - well crafted etc but there are no surprises after the first listen and the work as a whole lacks any kind of resonance. Same kind of feeling I get from listening to Savages - too much reverence for the source material maybe.
― Hinklepicker, Thursday, 20 June 2013 05:37 (ten years ago) link
It makes Teenage Fanclub sound like Crass.LOL!
Yeah, LOL I guess, but c'mon, this is a bit silly. There's more crunch in the "Shout It Out" chorus than the past 20 years of TFC's catalog combined. (TFC is one of my all-time fave bands, fwiw.)
I understand concerns that Cronin's record feels lightweight or whatever. For me, it teeters close to that, but never quite gets there. And it certainly helps that dude's hooks are unstoppable.
Lastly: I like the Title Tracks record I have quite a bit, but I think it's a couple rungs down the ladder from Cronin. I think the Segall affiliation has helped Cronin, but I wouldn't say it's pushed him far beyond where he deserves to be based on his talent.
― alpine static, Thursday, 20 June 2013 07:04 (ten years ago) link
i like him if i don't remind myself the fact that he sounds like The Shins.
― nostormo, Thursday, 20 June 2013 07:28 (ten years ago) link
I understand concerns that Cronin's record feels lightweight or whatever.
I meant it as a compliment.
― data halls and oate (stevie), Thursday, 20 June 2013 08:41 (ten years ago) link
Live he was more garage-rock last night (with the band's other guitarist & bassist looking like young long-haired '70 bar banders). They encored with a nice cover of Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World" . I only know the latest album, and he did plenty of earlier stuff
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
So I gave this another chance, as promised, as it hit the mark a little bit more this time around... enough to make me want to give it another couple of listens at least.
― I wanna live like C'MOWN! people (Turrican), Saturday, 22 June 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
*as=and
it only took this 3 or 4 days to become my most played record of the year
― ciderpress, Saturday, 22 June 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Really loving "Shout it Out" from the new one. Sounded great live too
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 22 June 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UBpH0ft1ko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr5P5Qc1b8A
love it
― nostormo, Thursday, 16 April 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
god status
― alpine static, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
new album sounds a lot like the shins, which isn't really a diss, i guess
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
it sounded really dull on first pass, but I'll give it a few more tries.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link