Forever Sounds
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 4, 2016 (2016-03-04)
RecordedUltrasuede Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio
GenreIndie rock
LabelDamnably, Shake It Records
ProducerJerri Queen, John Hoffman
Wussy chronology
Attica!
(2014)
Forever Sounds
(2016)
What Heaven Is Like
(2018)

Forever Sounds is Wussy's sixth studio album. It was released on March 4, 2016, on Shake It Records in the United States and Damnably in the UK and Europe.[1] The album reached number 20 on the Top Heatseekers album chart.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Robert ChristgauA–[5]
Cincinnati CityBeat(favorable)[6]
Drowned in Sound8/10[7]
Pitchfork Media6.9/10[8]
PopMatters[9]
Spin8/10[10]

Upon the album's release, SPIN named Forever Sounds its Album of the Week, awarding it an 8 of 10 rating. Reviewer Jason Gubbels wrote, "The distinct pleasures of Forever Sounds remain those of all five preceding Wussy albums — a crack songwriting duo detailing adult life’s ambiguities with vivid language amid a terrific rhythm section’s unapologetic alt-slop."[10] Robert Christgau gave the album an A− and described it as "the big-guitar record I've been expecting from my favorite band since Strawberry."[5]

Track listing

  1. Dropping Houses (Words: Lisa Walker, Chuck Cleaver)
  2. She’s Killed Hundreds (Cleaver)
  3. Donny’s Death Scene (Walker)
  4. Gone (Cleaver)
  5. Hello, I’m a Ghost (Cleaver)
  6. Hand of God (Walker)
  7. Sidewalk Sale (Cleaver)
  8. Better Days (Cleaver, Walker)
  9. Majestic-12 (Walker)
  10. My Parade (Cleaver)

Music on all tracks credited to Wussy.

References

  1. Wussy Announce Sixth Album ‘Forever Sounds’ and Share New Track, ‘Dropping Houses’, Wussy
  2. "Wussy - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2017-06-03.
  3. "Forever Sounds". Metacritic.
  4. Deming, Mark. "Forever Sounds". AllMusic.
  5. 1 2 Christgau, Robert (11 March 2016). "Guitar Rock Grooves". Vice. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  6. Baker, Brian (17 February 2016). "Sounds and Furies, Signifying Everything". Cincinnati CityBeat. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  7. Adcock, Lee (2 March 2016). "Forever Sounds Review". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  8. Monroe, Jazz (9 March 2016). "Forever Sounds". Pitchfork Media.
  9. Cober-Lake, Justin (26 January 2021). "Forever Sounds Review". PopMatters (published 4 March 2016).
  10. 1 2 Review: Wussy’s Ragged Ohio Racket Hits Biblical Proportions on ‘Forever Sounds’.


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