They’re back! They’re demonic! My Teenage Stride follow up their 2007 sleeper hit Ears Like Golden Bats with five new songs, only on eMusic. More info below the cut.
What’s most remarkable to me about Lesser Demons is that, rather than just being a stopgap or a time-filler, it actually finds My Teenage Stride solidifying their own identity. A few people were uneasy with how proudly Ears wore its influences; Demons takes a giant step away from Jed Smith’s record collection. “Theme From Teenage Suicide” may be the best song the band has ever written: it’s bracing and breathless and sarcastic and has the kind of hook that you remember after only one go-round. All five of these songs are winners, from the haunted mansion rattle of “The Loud Confessor” to the hyper-pop of “Skin Lieutenant.” I have a tendency to get very “rah! rah! rah!” about bands I love, but My Teenage Stride is clearly a band that is going somewhere. Lesser Demons finds them speeding along even faster. Pure pop bliss! Seriosuly: try “Theme From Teenage Suicide.” SOLID GOLD.
awesome – just loved the album from last year.
left my ipod at work so i will have to give it a good listen tomorrow…bugger
Nice one! I downloaded the album based on the video posting you did and the free track To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge – one of my favourite singles this year.
Off to get this now and have had a few listens already.
It’s good. lead track is great as is the 4th track whose name escapes me.