Stay Positive

It’s the new Hold Steady album! It’s another cracker (though not as instantly loveable as Boys & Girls…) and those of us who bought the limited edition get three extra tracks.

I’m trying to stay positive here.

Extra tracks would normally be a good thing, as long as they’re put on an extra disc. Taking an album that’s been arranged, produced and designed to be listened to from start to finish and then whacking three extras on the end throws the balance of the album off.

When you take those tree tracks and put them on the disc as one fucking track then you’re just stupid.

And that’s what we have here. I just put the album in the cd-rom to rip it and track twelve is twelve minutes long and called “Ask Her for Adderall \ Cheyenne Sunrise \ Two Handed Handshake” so if one of the latter tracks becomes a favourite I’ll have to skip past others to find it.

Audacity, here I come.