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After the release of his debut as Onelinedrawing, Jonah Matranga toured relentlessly with bombastic groups including Thursday, Coheed & Cambria, and the Weakerthans -- and on The Volunteers, it shows. No longer are the arrangements dominated by hush vocals and spare instrumentation. The Volunteers is gifted with smashing anthems like "We Had a Deal" (which could be Ryan Adams-penned). But Matranga doesn't completely abandon the original template, and the echoey and sparse bits create a now familiar but still effective loud/soft dynamic that is unstoppable. Even when the songwriting is odd (the start-stop "Over It"), it's because Matranga is masterfully constructing a setup to transition into pure pop grandiosity. Onelinedrawing, in general, may be a bit too saccharine for some listeners, and it lacks the classic power pop levity of a Brendan Benson or Weakerthans, but The Volunteers is a wildly inventive record that can stand tall beside earnest peers like Saves the Day's In Reverie.
© Charles Spano /TiVo
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Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Onelinedrawing, MainArtist - Matranga Jonah Sonz, Writer - A Onelinedrawing Is (ASCAP), MusicPublisher
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
Album review
After the release of his debut as Onelinedrawing, Jonah Matranga toured relentlessly with bombastic groups including Thursday, Coheed & Cambria, and the Weakerthans -- and on The Volunteers, it shows. No longer are the arrangements dominated by hush vocals and spare instrumentation. The Volunteers is gifted with smashing anthems like "We Had a Deal" (which could be Ryan Adams-penned). But Matranga doesn't completely abandon the original template, and the echoey and sparse bits create a now familiar but still effective loud/soft dynamic that is unstoppable. Even when the songwriting is odd (the start-stop "Over It"), it's because Matranga is masterfully constructing a setup to transition into pure pop grandiosity. Onelinedrawing, in general, may be a bit too saccharine for some listeners, and it lacks the classic power pop levity of a Brendan Benson or Weakerthans, but The Volunteers is a wildly inventive record that can stand tall beside earnest peers like Saves the Day's In Reverie.
© Charles Spano /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:38:18
- Main artists: Onelinedrawing
- Label: Epitaph
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
2016 Epitaph 2016 Epitaph
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