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Open Door Policy
Rock · 2021 · 10 tracks · 40m

Open Door Policy

The Hold Steady

Dense, horn-flecked rock that trades bar-room anthems for cinematic tension. A sophisticated, jittery look at the characters living on the edge of the modern world.

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It's like a gritty noir novel set to the best art-rock arrangements the band has ever recorded.

A sophisticated, jittery exploration of modern survival and the systems that fail us.

Open Door Policy · vs · The Hold Steady
Brooding+1.8σ

Brooding saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 40m
01
The Feelers
4:46
02
Spices
3:46
03
Lanyards
3:54
04
Family Farm
3:43
05
Unpleasant Breakfast
4:59
06
Heavy Covenant
4:40
07
The Prior Procedure
3:38
08
Riptown
3:23
09
Me & Magdalena
3:48
10
Hanover Camera
3:58
Moments Worth Waiting For
The sudden, triumphant burst of horns that cuts through the jittery tension of Spices.
The way the piano and guitar intertwine during the slow-burn opening of The Feelers.
The rhythmic, almost hypnotic repetition of the chorus in Heavy Covenant that builds into a wall of sound.
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