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Someday Everything Will Be Fine by Spider Bags

Spider Bags

Someday Everything Will Be Fine

Release Date: Aug 3, 2018

Genre(s): Pop/Rock

Record label: Merge

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Album Review: Someday Everything Will Be Fine by Spider Bags

Great, Based on 3 Critics

AllMusic - 80
Based on rating 8/10

Five albums into their career, Spider Bags are sounding a little less punk and a bit more rock on 2018's Someday Everything Will Be Fine. There's a large helping of fuzzy, garage-leaning guitar-mauling here, these folks haven't abandoned their occasional detours into formless noise, and the music continues to wear an audible sneer. But just as on 2014's Frozen Letter, these sessions find the band sounding tighter and more confident than ever before, with just a dollop of slop to keep things swinging but a sharper overall focus that helps these tunes connect with a solid wallop.

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Exclaim - 80
Based on rating 8/10

In the world of Someday Everything Will Be Fine, nothing stays fixed. Like pulling into a highway gas station at 4 a.m., the latest from North Carolina's Spider Bags feels liminal, reckoning with the question: where do we go from here? In response, Spider Bags craft a patchwork of charbroiled rock, slouching towards an unknown future and finding freedom in their precariousness.   Someday Everything Will Be Fine is an experience of sprawl, unfurling from opener "Reckless." Aptly named, the fuzz-drenched track starts as if in mid-thought ….

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Pitchfork - 70
Based on rating 7.0/10

Dan McGee's obsession with the tragicomic predates his decade-long tenure as the frontman of the North Carolina trio Spider Bags. In the early 2000s, he launched a raucous punk band "with the most obnoxious name we could find": DC Snipers. The band's songs, like "All Humans Are Garbage" were accordingly provocative, but their knack for making self-loathing sound like a joyride carried over to Spider Bags as well, delivered in the form of grungy, countrified rock songs whose fervor amplified their absurdist messaging.

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