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- Record Label: Upset the Rhythm
- Release Date: Sep 20, 2024
- Summary: The fifth full-length release from Baltimore duo Ed Schrader's Music Beat was co-produced by Dylan Going.
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- Record Label: Upset the Rhythm
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival
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The WireSep 20, 2024Orchestra Hits is the truest iteration of Rice and Schrader’s aesthetic to date. By polishing these songs, buffing them to relative shininess and adding serrated electronics, their emotive impact and melodic drama are greatly magnified. [Oct 2024, p.60]
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Sep 20, 2024It’s hard to tell if these songs celebrate youth and beauty or mourn it from a remove; there’s a bit of both in every track. And indeed, that combination of surface and undercurrent, rave-up and desolation, dance beat and aria, is what makes Orchestra Hits so compelling.
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Sep 20, 2024Throughout their career, Ed Schrader has retained energy and spirit, even as their direction has shifted from noisy, primal blues-punk shouting to dramatic, new romantic-style crooning. Orchestra Hits reflects the sophistication of aging, and relating to the past while continuing to artistically evolve.
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Under The RadarSep 24, 2024Orchestra Hits is most captivating when the band drifts into murkier terrain. [Aug - Oct 2024, p.102]
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UncutSep 20, 2024It can be quite hard to pin down what they’re trying to do. This makes Orchestra Hits curious, even if their mining of goth and the ’80s, with its attendant melodrama and gestural angst, isn’t always successful. [Oct 2024, p.41]