Wussy - Wussy
(Shake It, 2009) Wussy’s third, a self-titled album featuring their live staples “Happiness Bleeds”, “Little Paper Birds”, “Maglite” and “This Will Not End Well”.
WUSSY - Wussy
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“Not a weak track on this album.” ★★★★☆ – Rolling Stone
“A concept album propelled forward by the band’s buzz saw guitar riffs..” – Ken Tucker, Fresh Air NPR
“For exposing ordinary life’s flaming weirdness, you can’t beat the shabby folk rock on this witty third album.” 8/10 – SPIN
“Their country-drone guitars and locked-in rhythm section never give up..” – Robert Christgau, MSN Consumer Guide
“Few bands since the Velvet-steeped heyday of the Feelies, Yo La Tengo and R.E.M. have abandoned themselves so completely to the ebbing, flowing currents of keening, droning guitars.” – Washington Post
“Recalling a roll call of adventurous boy/girl-styled indie bands – Yo La Tengo, Handsome Family, X – Wussy draws on plenty of yin/yang sexual and existential tension, a charmingly shambling, rough-hewn sound” – Uncut
“There’s no humble way to sell one of the best bands in the world, so I won’t lowball it: Inside the basic-on-paper four-piece framework that is the Cincinnati rock band Wussy, you’ll experience marital intensity like peak X, amplifier squall like great Crazy Horse, and oddball folklore panoramas like early R.E.M.” – Village Voice
“Midwestern alt-country oddballs stay weird, bleak, funny.” – PopMatters
“Lyrically, [they’ve] done prouder for that old Southern Gothic, Raymond Carver standby of minor-record storytelling than just about anyone in the 2000s..This band has one more interesting thing to say about romance and Ohio with each passing note.” – Crawdaddy
“Their most fully realized work on their 3rd and best album yet.. A number of standout songs combining distinctive imagery with dark raw emotion.” – KEXP Seattle
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