Search - Minus 5 :: I Don't Know Who I Am (Let the War Against Music)

Good, not great, Minus 5 album

Scott Richardson | Chicago, IL USA | 04/07/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Though McCaughey says that this is, in many ways, closer to what he'd originally envisioned for Let The War Against Music Begin, I think I prefer that album to this one. Many of the songs on this not-quite-an-outtakes-collection disc plod along. The trademark McCaughey strangeness is present (Submachine Girl begins with the line "She started the grade-school dogchew craze"), but the songs are slow and melancholy. Some of that is fine, but the album, as a whole, is a downer. It makes a good companion/contrast to In Rock, and it has some merits (excellent harmonies and solid songwriting, as always), but it's too much of a downer."