The M’s, ‘The M’s’
By user • Jul 20th, 2004 • Category: Album Reviews
The last time Chicago had a budding underground of any legitimacy, a president named Bush was feeling the backlash of an Iraq invasion and appeared close to a one-term presidency. The acts went by the names of Urge Overkill, Liz Phair, Smoking Popes, The Smashing Pumpkins and Veruca Salt.
Times have changed — musically, at least. Now the bands are The Ponys, The Redwalls, Troubled Hubble and The M’s. The last on the list may be the most musically ambitious.
The M’s possess a rawness of contemporary garage bands on songs like “Dirty Old Dog” and the album’s best song, “Maggie,” but with the experimental aspects of “Sgt. Pepper’s”-era Beatles during “Break Our Bones.”
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Northern Star, July 20, 2004
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