''All The Falsest Hearts Can Try'' is a full-length album by Centro-Matic, released in 2000.

Critical reception

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'' wrote that the band's "indie-rock allegiances remain strong enough that many songs here are actually oblique, bittersweet meditations on the mythology of those allegiances." ''

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'' called the album "yet more rough-hewn genius-in-the-making from the same American heartlands that threw up the likes of The Flaming Lips and Uncle Tupelo." The ''

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'' called it "brilliantly raw," writing: "Here is a group of musicians whose talent and experience pulls them toward perfection, though they'll happily sacrifice technical recording quality for musical quantity."

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wrote that "the sonic mudbath, along with Centro-matic's deliberate bush-league musicianship, exquisitely compliments

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Johnson's songs, a twangy mix of Crazy Horse raunch and sweet acoustic balladeering."

Track listing

# Cool That You Showed Us How # The Blisters May Come # Call the Legion in Tonight # In the Strategy Room # Huge in Every City # Saving a Free Seat # Save Us, Tothero # Most Everyone Will Find # Gas Blowin’ Out of Our Eyes # Hercules Now! # Magic Cyclops # Would Go Over # Members of The Show ‘em How It's Done # Aerial Spins/Nautical Wilderness

Personnel

* Will Johnson - vocals,

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s * Scott Danbom - vocals, keyboards,

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

* Mark Hedman -

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drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a ...

References

External links

Official site
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