Lawrence Arms



Lawrence Arms
Metropole
Epitaph


 ADDS 1/28/14
 DIGITAL ONLY
"From the sounds of it, the time off has only been kind to The Lawrence Arms. This isn't one of those uninspired attempted-comeback albums, Metropole is up there with the band's best stuff." - Brooklyn Vegan 
For their first full-length album in nearly eight years, the Lawrence Arms amped up their brand of gritty punk with a newly deepened passion for storytelling-through-songwriting. The follow-up to the Chicago-bred trio’s 2009 EP Buttsweat and Tears, Metropole threads the Lawrence Arms’s raw and blistering yet hook-heavy sound with a lyrical narrative that captures what vocalist/bassist Brendan Kelly calls “that alone-in-a-crowd, stranger-in-a-strange-land kind of sh*t—a feeling of such weird solitude that you don’t even know what’s up and what’s down ‘cause you’re so caught in the wake of the city.” 
“When we got going on making the album it felt like we were writing at a different and sort of evolved level, which was really exciting,” notes vocalist/guitarist Chris McCaughan, who formed the Lawrence Arms with Kelly and drummer Neil Hennessy in 1999. “It’s like all that time off ended up creating a whole new energy for us.”
Like every Lawrence Arms album since 2000—including their last full-length release, 2006’s much-acclaimed Oh! Calcutta!—Metropole was recorded at Chicago’s Atlas Studios with co-producer Matt Allison (an engineer also known for his work with fellow Chicago-punk-scene vets Alkaline Trio).  No matter which frame of mind the Lawrence Arms embody, the band’s endless merging of melody-charged punk and wickedly clever yet bravely personal lyrics make Metropole their most dynamic album to date.


RIYL: Bad Religion, Dead to Me, Menzingers, NOFX, Sundowner

DIRTY: #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11

CLEAN: #5, 7, 10, 12

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