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On A Wire (CD)

By: The Get Up Kids (Artist)

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DISC 1 for On A Wire (CD) Album By The Get Up Kids (Artist)
1   Overdue
2   Stay Gone
3   Let The Reigns Go Loose
4   Fall From Grace
5   Grunge Pig
6   High As The Mountains
7   All That I Know
8   Walking On A Wire
9   Wish You Were Here
10   Campfire Kansas
11   Worst Idea, The
12   Hannah Hold On
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (6/20/02, p.84) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Straining vocals, racing tempos and walls of distortion give way to softer singing, spacious guitars and prominent keyboards....subtle and tender..."
Spin (11/02, p.125) - 7 out of 10 - "...Catchy, finger-snappin' strolls through a landscape etched with disappointment and hope..."
Entertainment Weekly (5/31/02, p.108) - "...This is the group at their best..." - Rating: B+
Q (11/02, p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...An ideal way to remember the summer just gone..."
Uncut (8/02, p.104) - 4 out of 5 - "...In truth, they're just a great heart-on-sleeve rock band."
Alternative Press (8/02, p.73) - 7 out of 10 - "...From the doo-wopping vocal harmonies to the painstakingly layered guitars and frolicking bass lines, it's clear the Kids have progressed beyond power chords and whiny yelps..."
Magnet (8-9/02, p.73) - "...A tremendous leap forward..."
CMJ (6/3/02, p.13) - "...Finds the Kids at their most mature, musically speaking..."
NME (Magazine) (5/25/02, p.32) - 7 out of 10 - "...The mature record...it eschews the intimate confessionals of old for a less frantic sound more akin to old indie lags The Replacements....A brave, potentially suicidal gesture: all hail the grown-up kids."

Title Note

Get Up Kids: Matthew Pryor, Jim Suptic (vocals, guitar); James Dewees (keyboards, background vocals); Rob Pope (bass); Ryan Pope (drums).

Recorded at Tarquin Stuidios, Bridgeport, Connecticut between January and February 2002.

For over half a decade, KC's Get Up Kids garnered a fan base, with music redolent of harder-edged melodic bands such as Superchunk and Jawbox. However, 2002's ON A WIRE, the outfit's first release in three years, finds the fivesome with a sound positively Beatle-esque, or at the very least Badfinger-esque, considering the latter's penchant for sublimely maudlin pop.

Since their inception, the Get Up Kids have possessed the knack for penning fine-etched, intelligent, mesmeric songs, however with ON A WIRE, the band hits its most appealing pop stride. The presence of alt-pop producer extraordinaire Scott Litt, best known for his work with R.E.M., certainly doesn't hurt, as an inviting soundscape propels one lush track into the next. This studied guidance enables the band to sound its best when letting it all hang out on "All That I Know," a hyper-melodic epiphany with a cornball-but-sweet chorus ("all the ships in the ocean..."), a perfect lead-in to the more pensive, but still overwhelmingly melodious "Walking On A Wire." In fact, a likeable symmetry prevails throughout ON A WIRE, a refreshing breakthrough album from a talented band.

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