How We Handle Our Midnights

How We Handle Our Midnights Artist: Glossary
Label: Undertow Music
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 822560001620
EAN: 0822560001620
ASIN: B000092OK3


Release Date: 2003-04-22

How We Handle Our Midnights


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Tracks:

  1. These City Lights Shine
  2. Remember Me Tomorrow Night
  3. Hold Me Down
  4. At Midnight
  5. Golden Houses
  6. When Easy Street Gets Hard to Find
  7. Lonesome Stray
  8. The Rutherford County Line
  9. Marigold Moon
  10. Daylight Saving

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Dictionary.......2007-02-21

I've loved these guys since I saw them in St. Louis at Frederick's Music Lounge. I've seen them with Two Cow Garage and Slobberbone. The CD is just as good as they are live, except that you're not holding up a drunk chick that you're hoping to feel up later.

4 out of 5 stars Junkmedia.org Review - A gruff twang.......2003-05-27

Like a careering politician, Glossary's singer-songwriter Joey Kneiser knows how to stay on message on the band's third full-length, How We Handle Our Midnights. Unlike the often-lampooned leader of the U.S., however, Kneiser is a clever wordsmith, one who finds some hope amid small-town boredom, cynicism and helplessness. Still, his country-tinged songs ache with a longing for change.

In a gruff twang that's less whiny than J Mascis' and not as snide as Evan Dando's, Kneiser pines for the simplicity of youth, yet also seeks to escape the bonds of familiarity. Using simple words to tell age-old tales, Kneiser sounds like he's singing from experience when he lands lines like, "Now we're working all week just to find that the person you always thought you'd be just got left behind."

How We Handle... covers pretty much the same ground as the band's first two full-length albums and last year's Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts EP: time-tested, nuthin'-fancy country-rock that could please both Uncle Tupelo fans and more open-minded Skynyrd devotees.

Album highlights include "Hold Me Down," the most classically country-sounding song on the disc; the hard-charging "When Easy Street Gets Hard to Find"; and the melancholy "Daylight Saving," which features dark images such as "Put my last breath in a jar/and hide under the mat of your car." The songs fit together well thematically and musically, but can be claustrophobic, with little room for band members to flex their musical muscles.

Dave Brigham
Junkmedia.org Review

5 out of 5 stars

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