Very Emergency

by The Promise Ring

Overview

Unfortunately, you will never see the Promise Ring the way they were in the days of Thirty Degrees Everywhere, but you can at least appreciate the good parts of what they have become. Their emotionally tense and sentimental edge has pretty much entirely disappeared; everything is happy, bouncy, and catchy as hell, which isn't always a bad thing. This excessively poppy direction that the Promise Ring boys take throughout this entire record was heavily hinted at on their three-song EP Boys & Girls. Perhaps one of the more upsetting things about this album is that the lyrics have lost that classic Promise Ring feel -- they actually make clear sense a lot of the time. At times, the music just gets so poppy that it is sickening, such as in the sappy "bop bop bop" background vocals on "Skips a Beat (Over You)," and the references to the band members' names in an otherwise fairly decent song "Things Just Getting Good." Although three-fourths of the album is pretty much bad pop songs, it somehow grows on you, as those Promise Ring kids have the uncanny ability to do. ~ Blake Butler

Product Details

Release Date:	07/27/2018
Label:	Epitaph
UPC:	0045778211517
Rank:	31845

Tracks

1. Happiness Is All the Rage
2. Emergency! Emergency!
3. The Deep South
4. Happy Hour
5. Things Just Getting Good
6. Living Around
7. Jersey Shore
8. Skips a Beat (Over You)
9. Arms and Danger
10. All of My Everythings

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Promise Ring   Primary Artist,Band

Technical Credits

J. Robbins   Producer
Alan Douches   Mastering
Scott Schoenbeck   Composer
Jason Gnewikow   Composer,Art Direction
Davey vonBohlen   Composer
Dan Didier   Composer
Andy Mueller   Photography