Should - The Great Pretend (2014) [MP3 V0][Kely258][P2PDL]

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The Great Pretend is Shoulds fourth album and the first since 2011s Like a Fire Without Sound a gentle but idiosyncratic collection of dream pop that marked the Baltimore bands return from a 13-year hiatus. That same year, Captured Tracks reissued Shoulds 1995 debut A Folding Sieve in an expanded form as the inaugural release of the labels Shoegaze Archive Series, which has since included reissues by Medicine and For Against.

Throughout its 11 songs, The Great Pretend demonstrates that Should has flourished creatively in the interim. While still informed by their shoegaze and dream pop roots, the album twists and turns, subverting expectations.

The mono-chord, krautrock groove of the opener Dont Send Me your Regrets gives way to elegant, lush pop of Loveless Devotion - only to morph abruptly into an endless refrain atop heavy toms and buzzing guitars. The strident guitar and emphatic drums of Mistakes are Mine turns on a dime to an orchestrated, drumless bridge.

But the album is still stamped with Shoulds signatures: Marc Ostermeier and Tanya Maus harmonies on In Monotone and A Lonely Place and the churning shoegaze wash of Dalliance, which harkens back to the bands debut and will no doubt be relished by longtime fans.

The starkest contrasting hues of Shoulds expanded songwriting palette lie between the unabashed Factory post-punk tones of Amends and Dont Get To Know Me, a 3/4-time piano vamp embellished with increasing layers of orchestration as the album closes.

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1 dont send me your regrets [3.50]
2 loveless devotion [4.11]
3 mistakes are mine [4.40]
4 in monotone [5.10]
5 down a notch [3.16]
6 everybody knows [4.12]
7 dalliance [2.36]
8 a lonely place [4.06]
9 amends [3.49]
10 gold stars [3.12]
11 dont get to know me [4.02]

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