No Way (album)
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{{Infobox album
| name = No Way
| type = studio
| artist = Run On
| cover = Run On - No Way.jpg
| alt =
| released = February 25, 1997
| recorded = October 1996
| venue =
| studio = Idful, Chicago, Illinois
| genre = Indie rock, art rock
| length = 46:30
| label = Matador{{Cite web|url=https://history.matadorrecords.com/albums/run-on-no-way/|title=Run On – No Way – This Day In Matador History}}
| prev_title = Start Packing
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Scoot
| next_year = 1997
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web |first=Heather |last=Phares |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r258610|pure_url=yes}}|title=No Way |website=AllMusic |accessdate=March 31, 2013}}
|rev2 = The Austin Chronicle
|rev2score = {{rating|3.5|4}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1997-03-07/527538/|title=Record Reviews|website=www.austinchronicle.com}}
|rev3 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
|rev3score = {{rating|5|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=963}}
}}
No Way is the second album by Run On, released in 1997 through Matador Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/run-on-mn0000855267/biography|title=Run On | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{cite magazine |first=Scott |last=Schinder |url=http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=run_on |title=Run On |magazine=Trouser Press |year=2007 |accessdate=March 31, 2013}}
Critical reception
Tucson Weekly called the album "phenomenal," writing that "Run On delivers avant-garde pop of a ... dark sensibility with a sophisticated, technically educated and carefully orchestrated approach."{{Cite web|url=https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/10-02-97/sbites.htm|title=Tucson Weekly: Soundbites (October 2 - October 8, 1997)|website=www.tucsonweekly.com}} The Austin Chronicle praised the "lo-fi production, mudfuzz guitar with tom-tom driven Delta rhythms, graveyard violin, and Sue Garner's dusty-road clarion call (hubby Rick Brown and guitarist Alan Licht also sing), all wrapped around hooky pop songs."
Guitar Player wrote that Alan Licht surrounds Garner's vocals "with ominous clouds of droning feedback, supporting the song's melodic flow for two or three verses before unleashing a short, furious storm of groans, squeals and rapid-fire hammer-ons."{{cite journal |title=Run on: Alan Licht's meat candy |journal=Guitar Player |date=Jun 1997 |volume=31 |issue=6 |page=20}} The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that the "nine originals [span] the indie-pop spectrum from the impossibly quirky 'As Good As New' to the heartbreaking violin-fueled lament, 'Anything You Say'."{{cite journal |title=The Buzz |journal=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=17 Sep 1997 |page=E5}}
Track listing
{{tracklist
| all_writing = Run On, except "Road" by Nick Drake and "Sinner Man" which is traditional
| title1 = Something Sweet
| length1 = 2:59
| title2 = Lab Rats
| length2 = 2:40
| title3 = As Good as New
| length3 = 4:36
| title4 = Look
| length4 = 2:33
| title5 = Bring Her Blues
| length5 = 3:21
| title6 = Half of Half
| length6 = 3:42
| title7 = Anything You Say
| length7 = 3:54
| title8 = Road
| length8 = 1:41
| title9 = Days Away
| length9 = 5:15
| title10 = Out for a Walk
| length10 = 3:14
| title11 = Ropa Vieja
| length11 = 3:10
| title12 = Sinner Man
| length12 = 9:25
}}
Personnel
;Run On
- Rick Brown – drums, synthesizer, marimba, vocals, programming
- Sue Garner – bass guitar, guitar, piano, vocals, design
- Katie Gentile – violin, organ, cowbell, backing vocals
- Alan Licht – guitar, chord organ, cowbell, vocals
;Production and additional personnel
- Hugh Hamrick – painting
- Rod Hui – mixing on "Something Sweet", "Road" and "Sinner Man"
- Brent Lambert – mastering
- Casey Rice – engineering, mixing
References
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External links
- {{Discogs master |master=153657 |name=No Way |type=album}}
{{Run On (band)}}
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