No Longer Love
Mice & Rifles
Performed By
Mice & Rifles
Album UPC
825479071029
CD Baby Track ID
4589193
Label
Wagonmaker Records
Released
2007-01-01
BPM
135
Rated
0
ISRC
usl4r0755747
Year
2007
Spotify Plays
109
Writers
Writer
Kevin Wayne Brinkkoeter
Songwriter ID
21442
Pub Co
Wagonmaker
Composer
Kevin Wayne Brinkkoeter
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Rights Controlled
Master and Publishing Grant
Rights
One-Stop: Master + 100% Pub Grant
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United States - Texas
Description
The Austin quintet’s dusty ballads cut with a sardonic edge with whip-smart lyrics and hypnotic croon accented by pedal steel.
Notes
Following 2006′s fine All Kites Up, Mice & Rifles’ second EP proves the local sextet more unified and polished, guitars squealing to the fore on ironic anthem “Carefree Americans” and brooding “The Only One.” Though still not quite capturing their live country-rock assault of indignation, Beginner’s Luck maintains its power in the percolating intensity of Kevin Brinkkoeter’s low growl. Seething in a bittersweet scowl and furrowed by Phil McJunkins’ pedal steel, Brinkkoeter’s voice cracks on waltzing closer “Glass Homes” with the acerbic wit of lines like: “Let me digress, to when we first kissed. We were carving stones, while we were living in glass homes.” Before that, “Shall Remain” pensively grapples mortality (“My mind is thinking things that my younger mind would never dare”), and “No Longer Love” churns heartache against resignation. No luck to it; Mice & Rifles fire with steel-eyed precision.
- Doug Freeman, The Austin Chronicle
- Doug Freeman, The Austin Chronicle
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