4/6/2023 0 Comments Set your goals mutinyIn these times of desperation, may we find joy in the little victories? Luckily for us, the 10 year anniversary tour of Set Your Goals’ debut, Mutiny!, is a heck of a victory but let’s not get carried away by romanticism and only reminisce over their 2nd best album. We’re 10 months deep into this crap-shoot of a year and what do we have to show for it? Dead legends, droughts, the Olympics, Donald Trump and a new Dawes record. The Case For This Will Be the Death of Us When you’re dealing with a genre that relies so much on youthful energy and unadulterated passion, why would anything but a band’s debut record be their best? So when comparing Set Your Goals records, the choice is obvious - no collection of material showcases what makes them great as much as Mutiny! does. This confidence and poise appears on all their records, but Mutiny! shows them at their most ambitious, six bright-faced kids that somehow think they can change the world by shouting in unison over chugged breakdowns. Set Your Goals always had something important to say, and they never lacked the gumption to tell their audience to listen up. The record flies out of the gate with “Work in Progress,” a track that is pretty much the structural epitome of getting the listener up to speed, and then never dials the energy or the aggression back one bit. It is, possibly for lack of the exact term to describe it, raw.Īside from all that, the rawness comes in part from small-label charm and production value as well as something that marks a lot of great debut albums - the feeling that the artists has so much to say, prove, and do, but so little time. The songs are littered with shout-along choruses, politically charged rallying cries and prolonged sections of breakneck power chord madness, something the band would later tone down on This Will Be The Death Of Us and especially on the disappointing Burning At Both Ends. It’s a classic, it’s essential, and it’s a touchstone for thousands that grew up with stage dives and high fives and Warped Tour and skinny jeans and gang vocals. Mutiny! was the first full-length release by the California “easycore” outfit, and it pretty much represents everything that has, is and will be great about the pop punk genre forever and ever. It’s an exclamation point tacked on the end of an album title and a full-speed ahead mentality so focused it may fly right past you if you aren’t fully prepared. It’s the way the human subconscious naturally reacts to someone playing something catchy as loud and fast as they can. They work their way into your mind not solely through melodies and lyrics and sounds, but also through energy and passion. Good pop punk records aren’t special because of what you hear, they’re special because of how they make you feel. That is, at least, until the striking realization occurs that pop punk isn’t objectively great. There’s usually nothing to analyze musically nor thematically that goes deeper than what’s heard on the surface, and because of this it’s a little annoying at first to sit back and try to think of why any particular pop punk record is objectively great. It’s all simple chords and catchy hooks, paint-by-numbers songwriting and clichéd lyrics. This is a new, unopened CD in its original packaging.Pop punk really isn’t a music writers’ genre. This Song Is Definitely Not About A Girl.This reissue features a bonus disc containing rare demos and enhanced footage. MUTINY! is full of catchy hooks and insightful lyrics having been on Top Ten lists everywhere. from there it grew into what it is now - a dedicated group of guys that have honed their songwriting abilities and are constantly on tour. The band has already gained both respect from critics and the ardent fans in their relatively brief career starting in early 04. Following in the footsteps of Lifetime, Gorilla Biscuits and Saves the Day, Set Your Goals espouse a brand of positive hardcore punk that has sadly been absent in the music scene in recent years.
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