Track List­ing:

1. Cham­pi­ons Of Nothing
2. A Single Explosion
3. Metal Airplanes**
4. 99% Of Us Is Failure**
5. Born Losers**
6. Odette**
7. Black Helicopter
8. The Boy Come Home
9. The Devil’s In Your Details
10. Moon Over Marin
11. Girl Wedged Under The Front Of A Firebird
12. I Am Not Safer Than A Bank
13. I’m A Window**
14. She’s In It For The Money**
15. True Love Will Find You In The End**

**Clear Favorites

This album has been some­what of a detach­ment from his other works, and I was intrigued. As it turns out there’s quite a story to this one, which actu­ally goes on to explain why the album is called what it is, and why the music sounds the way it does. I’ve got to say that it takes balls to make an entire album that does noth­ing but face your demons. Appar­ently, for Matt Good the result is a solid, if not depress­ing, album.

The tempo for the whole CD seems to be set to “slow” and never gets faster than “almost four-four.” The music is very min­i­mal­ist, and it’s obvi­ous every one of these tracks were orig­i­nally writ­ten with the help of a guitar and noth­ing else. Other instru­ments have obvi­ously been added, and added with a skill that only some­one who’s been in the busi­ness for a while could do. I actu­ally had the chance to watch a small live spot of Matt Good at the recent CASBY awards, and it was prob­a­bly some of the best music I’ve heard live. Sadly he only played a couple songs, but god damn they were good. They were also all from this album so that’s a bonus.

As stated, this album has a bit of a depressed feel­ing about it, and it’s preva­lent through­out the entire track list­ing. It’s not some­thing you want to listen to when you’re in a good mood, but I have to say that it will fit in really well with an sort of sullen or relaxed mood. I find it’s great music when I want to feel cre­ative. I don’t know why, but it seems to work for me. The vocals are for the most part as toned down as the music itself, though a couple tracks (”Born Losers” and “I’m A Window” come to mind) fea­ture an excep­tion­ally clear and strong vocal track.

I sug­gest pick­ing this one up of you’re into Matthew Good, or if you just like a good solid album that hap­pens to be some­ones soul on dis­play. It’s not for every­one, but those who like it will truly like it a lot.

8/10