On the fantastic Pick Up Your Head, Middle Class Rut has exceeded all expectations regarding how a second album should sound. That sound itself is fuller, the songwriting is stronger, and the musicianship is just brilliant. While both albums are great in their own right, Pick Up Your Head is definitely a step beyond No Name No Color. “Born Too Late” is, to put it bluntly, an explosion and might be the remnants of No Name No Color being shed […]
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Support Good Music in 2011: Chapter 3 (Middle Class Rut)
I’m gonna change the title of this column to “Buy this damn album already because I told you to, ok?”. Catchy, right? Seriously, Middle Class Rut’s No Name No Color is a great album. Take the hypothetical baby from Tom Delonge and Perry Farrell and Cedric Bixler (Three Men and a Baby anyone???), have him front a band that sounds like Death From Above 1979, At The Drive-In, and Queens of the Stone Age with some Tome Morello thrown in for good measure […]