Album Reviews
On album number four, Minnesota’s Tiny Moving Parts do what they do best and while also delivering their poppiest release to date.
If you heard any of the band’s previous releases (and especially 2016’s ‘Celebrate’), you know this trio has all the technical chops you could ask for. But at the same time they know how to write songs that are bubbly, catchy and friggin’ full of energy. And they never sounded happier than on these ten songs. Imagine a Midwestern emo outfit playing pop-punk tunes with plenty of math-y guitar noodling.
‘Swell’ might not be as big of a surprise as ‘Celebrate’, but with songs like the vintage Tiny Moving Parts song that is ‘Applause’, the excellent ‘It’s Cold Tonight’ and ‘Malfunction’, this could very well be the album that will take them to the big leagues.
Track listing:
- Applause
- Smooth It Out
- Feel Alive
- Caution
- Wildfire
- Whale Watching
- It's Too Cold Tonight
- Malfunction
- Wishbone
- Warm Hand Splashing
Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.
