All the Falsest Hearts Can Try
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{{Infobox album
| name = All The Falsest Hearts Can Try
| type = Studio
| artist = Centro-Matic
| cover = All the Falsest Hearts Can Try.jpeg
| alt =
| released = 2000
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| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Rock
| length =
| label = Quality Park
Munich Records{{cite journal |title=On Record |journal=Sunday Times |date=10 Dec 2000 |page=22}}
| producer = Centro-Matic{{Cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/centromatic-all-2495864156.html|title=Centro-matic: All the Falsest Hearts Can Try|date=May 8, 2000|website=PopMatters}}
| prev_title = The Static vs. The Strings Vol. 1
| prev_year = 1999
| next_title = South San Gabriel Songs/Music
| next_year = 2000
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r480679|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
|rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=2 |page=272}}
|rev3 = The Independent
|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite journal |title=POP: ALBUM REVIEWS |journal=The Independent |date=19 Aug 2000 |page=36}}
|rev4 = NME
|rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-nme-3746-331197|title=Centro-Matic : All The Falsest Hearts Can Try | NME|date=September 12, 2005}}
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All The Falsest Hearts Can Try is a full-length album by Centro-Matic, released in 2000.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/centro-matic-mn0000189147/biography|title=Centro-Matic | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasobserver.com/music/out-here-6395824|title=Out Here|first=Zac|last=Crain|date=April 13, 2000|website=Dallas Observer}}
Critical reception
Texas Monthly 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."{{Cite web|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/all-the-falsest-hearts-can-try/|title=All the Falsest Hearts Can Try|date=June 1, 2000|website=Texas Monthly}} NME 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 Chicago Tribune 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."{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-10-03-0310030338-story.html|title=In quest for success, Texas' Centro-Matic gets its ham-fisted fill|first=Lauren|last=Viera|website=chicagotribune.com}} MTV wrote that "the sonic mudbath, along with Centro-matic's deliberate bush-league musicianship, exquisitely compliments [Will] Johnson's songs, a twangy mix of Crazy Horse raunch and sweet acoustic balladeering."{{Cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/872870/who-needs-a-cuisinart-when-youve-got-a-centro-matic/|title=Who Needs A Cuisinart When You've Got A Centro-Matic?|website=MTV News}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
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
References
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External links
- [http://www.centro-matic.com/ Official site]
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