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Someday Everything Will Be Fine

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Someday Everything Will Be Fine
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 3, 2018 (2018-08-03)
RecordedJune 2017 – January 2018
StudioBunker Audio, Memphis, Tennessee[1]
Genre
Length38:35
LabelMerge
Spider Bags chronology
Frozen Letter
(2014)
Someday Everything Will Be Fine
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.2/10[4]
Metacritic81/100[5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Blurt[1]
Exclaim!8/10[6]
The Guardian[7]
Pitchfork7/10[8]

Someday Everything Will Be Fine is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Spider Bags. It was released on August 3, 2018, by Merge Records.[9]

Production

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The album was recorded at Bunker Audio in Memphis, Tennessee, with producer Andrew McCalla, and features collaborations with Jack Oblivian, John Whittemore, Jana Misener, Krista Wroten-Combest, Patrick Stickles and Matthew Hoopengardner.[9]

Release

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On June 20, 2018, Spider Bags announced the release of their fifth studio album, along with the single "Cop Dream/Black Eye".[9]

On July 30, 2018, the music video to "Oxcart Blues" was released, with director Malachi Cull.[10]

Critical reception

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Someday Everything Will Be Fine was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81 based on 7 reviews.[5] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 75 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 6 reviews.[2]

Mark Deming of AllMusic noted how the band sounded a "little less punk and a bit more rock" on the release, while explaining the album "is an object lesson in how maturity and progress don't have to be the enemies of snarky, passionate rock & roll, and this is music that satisfies on several levels at once."[3] Barry Vitus from Blurt gave the release five out of five stars, explaining that it "injected a new, creative energy into the band. The chemistry imbued by the helping hands and producer were significant to the end product."[1] Writer Michael Hann of The Guardian gave the album four out of five stars, noting "their fifth album sound more of-the-moment than the previous four, not least because its opening track, Reckless, perfectly embodies that heavy, heavy slacker sound."[7]

Track listing

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Someday Everything Will Be Fine track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Reckless"Dan McGee5:34
2."Oxcart Blues"Dan McGee2:44
3."Alligator"Joseph Plunket2:37
4."Burning Sand"Dan McGee4:30
5."Cop Dream/Black Eye (True Story)"Dan McGee0:59
6."My Heart Is a Flame in Reverse"Dan McGee6:26
7."Tonight, I Walk on the Water"Dan McGee1:23
8."Ninety Day Dog" 4:09
9."Apocalypso"Dan McGee4:50
10."Rollin' with the Flow"Jerry Hayes5:23

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Vitus, Barry. "Blurt Magazine Review". Blurt. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Deming, Mark. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  4. ^ "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  6. ^ Torrey, Owen (July 31, 2018). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim!. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  7. ^ a b Hann, Michael (August 3, 2018). "Someday Everything Will Be Fine review – fuzzy veterans ride an alt-rock ripple". The Guardian. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  8. ^ Savage Levenson, Max (August 8, 2018). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  9. ^ a b c Schatz, Lake (June 20, 2018). "Spider Bags announce new album, Someday Everything Will Be Fine, share "Cop Dream/Black Eye (True Story)"". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  10. ^ "Spider Bags - Oxcart Blues". YouTube. Retrieved October 7, 2020.