Open Your Heart (CD)
The Men
Amoeba Review
Daniel Tures, Hollywood 01/29/2013
This Men of Brooklyn cough up raw, bloody chunks of rock power, but they're not particular -- they'll shift from blasting Nirvana grunge straight into some sloppy Stones country soul. Ragged but right!
Read MoreBilly Gil 03/03/2012
The Men’s Open Your Heart is really a lot of fun, a fast-paced post-hardcore album for people who don’t really care much for/about hardcore. It builds on the promise of last year’s Leave Home and adds more beatific instrumental passages like “Country Song” (super tremoloed guitars and reverbed out Southern Rock riffs, I guess that could qualify as “country”) and “Oscillation,” which flirts hard with shoegaze and krautrock before moving into a heavy ass hardcore bridge with spoken word vocals lain overhead. But those moments are the minority to tons of catchy riffage — the power-pop of “Turn It Around,” growling punk of “Animal” and Isn’t Anything era My Bloody Valentine (there’s that shoegaze again!) of “Please Don’t Go Away.” Like Fucked Up now or … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead before them, The Men refuse to be pigeonholed but delivery something a lot of us need to hear now and then — fast, hard rock ‘n’ roll. Read More
Track Listing
Disc 1 Titles |
Artist |
Length |
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1.
Turn It Around
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The Men | 03:55 |
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2.
Animal
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The Men | 02:50 |
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3.
Country Song
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The Men | 05:47 |
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4.
Oscillation
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The Men | 07:20 |
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5.
Please Don't Go Away
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The Men | 03:00 |
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6.
Open Your Heart
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The Men | 03:40 |
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7.
Candy
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The Men | 03:16 |
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8.
Cube
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The Men | 02:25 |
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9.
Presence
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The Men | 07:23 |
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10.
Ex-Dreams
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The Men | 05:30 |

















