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Avail - 4AM Friday
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When you’re a teenager with even the slightest bit of differentness about you, surviving adolescence is no simple feat. Try doing it in a town like Richmond, Virginia, a.k.a. the former capital of the Confederacy. Let’s just say it’s easy to resent the obvious ass-backwardness of a city that, not too long ago, celebrated Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee’s birthdays on the same day as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s. You need a thick skin, a well-developed sense of irony, and a community of similarly-minded weirdos for protection. And you need a band like Avail to write loud-as-fuck, catchy-as-hell anthems to serve as the rallying cry for your misspent youth. I was a teenage weirdo, and believe me when I say that I wore out my cassette of 4AM Friday before I even reached college. Sure, the songs found on the album don’t stray too far from standard (albeit not textbook by any means) melodic hardcore that was so popular at the time. But 4AM Friday is so much fun, so perfect an encapsulation of what it meant to grow up strange in a small Southern city in the 90s that it’s hard to deny....full text |
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| Opening with the rallying cry of "Simple Song" and winding down with the chugging rocker "Nameless," Avail's third album finds the Richmond, VA, punk band settling into a standard -- but still enjoyable -- formula. Loaded with catchy, singalong numbers, 4AM Friday rarely expands on the group's previous efforts, though an acoustic rendition of "Swing Low" again demonstrates a penchant for quieter material. ~ Brian Raftery, All Music Guide...full text |
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Track Duration Listeners 1 Simple Song full track 3:12 12,274 2 Order full track 1:37 4,748 3 Tuesday full track 2:29 4,721 4 92 full track 1:41 3,806 5 McCarthy full track 2:27 3,625 6 (Ben) full track 0:31 2,697 7 Monroe Park full track 1:28 3,686 8 Armchair full track 1:34 3,670 9 Fix free download 2:07 4,728 10 Blue Ridge full track 2:34 3,389 11 Swing Low full track 1:13 2,997 12 F.C.A. full track 1:45 2,903 13 Hang full track 2:44 2,992 14 Governor full track 1:58 2,941 15 Nameless full track...full text |
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