| Modests, The / Don't Hold Back |
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| Album: | Don't Hold Back | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Modests, The | Added: | Oct 2011 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-12-11 | Pull Date: | 2012-02-12 |
| Week Ending: | Feb 5 | Jan 8 | Jan 1 | Dec 25 | Dec 18 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 01, 2012: | Everyday Commotion Don't Hold Back | 4. | Dec 28, 2011: | meow Don't Hold Back | |
| 2. | Jan 04, 2012: | Brownian Motion I Need Your Help | 5. | Dec 21, 2011: | meow Don't Hold Back | |
| 3. | Jan 03, 2012: | Modern Donkey 07505412355, Don't Hold Back | 6. | Dec 15, 2011: | The Songsmith Show Call The Cops |
| Album Review |
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| Deniz Cebenoyan Reviewed 2011-12-09 | ||
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The Modests/ “Don’t Hold Back” / No Label Very fun rock, upbeat and sunny, but balanced nicely with gritty tenor vocals. Sometimes slip into standard safe chord progressions, but still a good time. Well produced, layered songs, sounds like a band that’s been recording for a while despite it apparently not at all being true (they’re still in school according to the paper insert!) A couple of tracks feature singing in a foreign language, perhaps Gaelic/Scots seeing as how they’re from Scotland? You can definitely hear the singer’s accent pretty frequently. No FCCs detected, though I can’t speak for the foreign language featured on tracks 4 and 5. Favorites include: 1, 5. 1. *2:05 Favorite! Sunny rock, makes you tap your foot to the beat, layered guitars, singer sounds like he’s having a good, wild time (“ooo ooo”s thrown in occasionally). 2. 2:14 Acousitic guitar, xylophone, builds to more uptemo ¾ of the way through. Vocals have a vague The Strokes feel, heavy Scottish accent pretty apparent here. 3. 3:40 Great uptempo, use of cowbell, nice powerchords on electric guitar. 4. 4:18 Slowly builds in beginning to faster tempo, electric guitars and xylophone. Begins in foreign language… I think. Before I knew it, they were speaking heavily accented English again! Oh you wild and crazy guys! 5. *3:17 Super uptempo like mid 90s punk, breaks down a bit to regular uptempo. Nice vocal harmonies. But then gets uptempo again! Then downtempo! You guuuys! Again with the language change-up too. Very fun. Deniz Cebenoyan | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Don't Hold Back | 3. | Call The Cops | |||
| 2. | Lucy's Fur Coat | 4. | I Need Your Help | |||
| 5. | 07505412355 | |||||