Records of the Week

MAYBESHEWILL OFFICIAL SITE / MAYBESHEWILL MYSPACE

For two weeks in a row now, our Record of the Week has come from Britain; electro-post-rockers Maybeshewill deliver with a vivifying effort that sets free that bottled-up hope and despair inside of us all.  Contrary to the title of the record, “Sing the Word Hope in Four-Part Harmony,” this album is laden with sonic cataclysms that belie the impending apocalypse and sampled vocals that reiterate the pernicious nature of the economy, mega-corporations, and modern life in general.  Bright pianos are washed away by fuzzy guitars and staccato-pounding drums.  If you need just to revel in cynicism, or wax poetic on the bright landscape that is the future, check out the nowlikephotographs podcast.