Victory Records
2007
Make It Blur
About This Album
Who says you can't be all things to all people? Certainly not June, who cleverly incorporate all the best bits of the modern musical landscape into their aural tapestry. Make It Blur is the Chicago quartet's sophomore set, further refining and grandly building upon the foundation of the group's debut album, If You Speak Any Faster. Two years on, June sound far more polished, their arrangements are denser, and their attention to detail is obvious throughout. This is partially due to Marc McClusky's excellent production, which emphasizes the band's musical exactitude and heady atmospheres, but also reflects the band's growing maturity. Every musical passage is there for a reason, from the effervescent synth that bubbles around the bright and bouncy "Tempter" to the flash of chiming, rabble-rousing '80s guitar that brightens the otherwise muscle-flexing {"I'd Lose Myself,"} the orchestral strings and lush synths that counterpoint the assaultive guitars of "Machine and the Line," and the sharp punk edge that sparks the exhilarating "A Taste." "Finally" has a spiky post-punk feel, splattering across the group's almost boy band-styled vocals, but encompasses echoes of at least another half-dozen subgenres as well.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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