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There Are Rules
Rock · 2011 · 13 tracks · 48m

There Are Rules

The Get Up Kids

A sharp pivot into jagged post-punk and analog synth textures. Gone is the suburban sunshine, replaced by nervous rhythms and a gritty, experimental edge.

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It's like if your favorite emo band suddenly decided they wanted to be Devo and it actually worked.

A restless and intellectually curious exploration of tension and mechanical rhythm.

There Are Rules · vs · The Get Up Kids
Anxious+4.0σ

Anxious saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 48m
01
Tithe
3:39
02
Regent’s Court
2:06
03
Shatter Your Lungs
2:49
04
Automatic
2:55
05
Pararelevant
3:37
06
Rally ’round the Fool
5:17
07
Better Lie
4:18
09
The Widow Paris
3:37
10
Birmingham
2:36
11
When It Dies
4:04
12
Rememorable
2:59
13
Past Is Past
3:53
14
Walk ’em With Grace
2:33
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring, mechanical synth pulse that opens Tithe, signaling a total break from their pop-punk past.
The way the bassline in Shatter Your Lungs drives the track with a nervous, angular energy that feels like Wire.
The sprawling, hypnotic repetition of Rally ’round the Fool that stretches their sound into krautrock territory.
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