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CHIN UP CHIN UP - This Harness Can't Ride Anything
| PrefixMag | | If I'm following trends, a band's career seems to consist of first being noticed and receiving attention, then establishing a niche in the scene/genre, and finally transcending its reputation into something universal. Chin Up Chin Up's second full length, This Harness Can't Ride Anything, acknowledges this idea and works to expand the framework laid on the band's call-for-attention debut, 2004's We Should Have Never Lived Like Skyscrapers. To connect with an audience outside of their established nook in the indie scene, the members of Chin Up Chin Up must have realized they needed to push their emotional boundaries in all aspects of their sound....full text |
| | Popmatters | | Sometimes you feel it’s possible to work out whether or not you’ll like a record within 30 seconds of the opening tune. You have a visceral, gut reaction to it. It provokes a smile of recognition, it’s pushing all the right buttons. “Track two is pretty good, too,” you think, “this is gonna be great”. You hope that the feeling will be proved right, but often it isn’t: the album is heavily front-loaded with good stuff and then it tapers off, it’s a disappointment, and all that goodwill and expectation is blown away....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | Because of Brian Deck, This Harness Can’t Ride Anything is pristine, foamably layered but never obtrusive; this producer is, primordially, a percussionist, and appropriately the album operates around a drumkit core, which, in light of Chin Up Chin Up’s 2004 debut, is probably what should have happened. Not that the rest of the tracks, arrangements, and instruments fan out from the beat, dwindling, because that would be water torture....full text |
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