Labels: Bermuda Mohawk
Review by: james pacanowski
This was kind of a curveball. The last time I heard imadethismistake, it was standard Plan-it-X-style fare; rough vocals, shitty recording but endearing in a scruffy sort of way and I was expecting this album to be the same sort of thing. Instead they now sound like some sort of bastard child begotten by Cursive and that other lower-case-utilising space-eschewing band, mewithoutyou. It sounds deliberately lo-fi which makes some peculiar Latterman-esque group vocals sound strange and flat. Perhaps if Mr. Campol had attempted to ease himself from simple folk-punk to a full band this wouldn’t sound like such a mess, but it’s like he just got excited that he didn’t feel the need to just do everything on an acoustic guitar anymore and just threw in anything that seemed like a good idea. There’s horns and strings and the aforementioned group vocals and it jars. Perhaps par it back next time.