Band's sophomore effort is full of life
The
expression "quarter-life crisis" gets thrown around pretty liberally
these days (it even has its own Wikipedia entry), and is as often a point of
contention as it is a reassurance for the demographic it supposedly
affects. With their second full-length, Creaturesque, Throw Me
the Statue has created a soundtrack for this social phenomena. "This is
change I cannot know / It comes down like a private snow," Scott
Reitherman sings on "Ancestors," and the rest of the album is certainly
not lacking similar references to time, disaffection and general
confusion. And yet, Reitherman and his bandmates refuse to wallow. With few
exceptions, including a three-song streak of lulled tempos at the
album's close, the songs are unabashedly infectious, with clapping and
stomping credits in the liner notes. With the help of
producer Phil Ek (Built to Spill, The Shins), the band captures the odd
we're-young-but-wish-we-were-younger nostalgia of the so-called crisis
while still creating an album that will appeal to an audience outside
the twentysomething set.