I Hate Music
The indie rock veterans return with their second album since their almost decade-long layoff. While the punchy hooks and uptempo shouters are still here, the album as a whole is a shade darker, focusing on personal loss and the passage of time.
While it isn’t entirely certain that Superchunk borrowed the name of its 10th album, I Hate Music, from The Replacements’ 1981 song “I Hate Music,” it’s a fairly safe bet. When Superchunk’s self-titled debut came out in 1990, it garnered comparisons to The Replacements, a band that was then in the process of…
The album title might protest otherwise, but here Superchunk sound like they're enjoying being Superchunk more than ever.
I Hate Music—the 10th album from Chapel Hill's Superchunk—isn't as cynical as it sounds.
"I hate music/What is it worth?/It can't bring anyone back to this Earth," snarls Mac McCaughan on "Me & You & Jackie Mittoo," an indie-rock reverie for fallen friends that name-checks the late Jamaican songsmith.
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