Volunteers

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This is an Enhanced CD which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Onelinedrawing: Jonah Matranga (various instruments). Additional personnel: Ian Love (guitar). Includes liner notes by Jonah Matranga & Geoff Rickey. Personnel: Me (vocals); Shara Worden (electric guitar, Wurlitzer organ, xylophone); Ian Love (electric guitar); Rohner Segnitz (piano). Audio Mixers: Dave Sardy; Me; Will Quinnell. Liner Note Author: Geoff Rickly. Recording information: At Home; Brighton Sound, Sacramento; CBGB's Gallery, New York, NY; Grandpa's Home; Ian's Home In Brooklyn; North Carolina; Office Of The Ottobar, Baltimore, MD; Rohner's Home; Shara's Home, Brooklyn, NY; Stevens Tech, Jersey City; University Of Connecticut; Will Quinnell's Studio, Brooklyn, NY. Director: Jonah Matranga. After the release of his debut as Onelinedrawing, Jonah Matranga toured relentlessly with bombastic groups including Thursday, Coheed & Cambria, and the Weakerthans -- and on The Volunteers, it shows. No longer are the arrangements dominated by hush vocals and spare instrumentation. The Volunteers is gifted with smashing anthems like "We Had a Deal" (which could be Ryan Adams-penned). But Matranga doesn't completely abandon the original template, and the echoey and sparse bits create a now familiar but still effective loud/soft dynamic that is unstoppable. Even when the songwriting is odd (the start-stop "Over It"), it's because Matranga is masterfully constructing a setup to transition into pure pop grandiosity. Onelinedrawing, in general, may be a bit too saccharine for some listeners, and it lacks the classic power pop levity of a Brendan Benson or Weakerthans, but The Volunteers is a wildly inventive record that can stand tall beside earnest peers like Saves the Day's In Reverie. ~ Charles Spano
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