What Doesn’t Kill Us is the second album from the Austin, Texas quintet What Made Milwaukee Famous and it is a wide-ranging record full of new-wave inflected power-popping indie-rock. While the band is stylistically all over the indie rock spectrum in terms of sound, one thing’s for sure; they certainly know how to write a melody. Sometimes upbeat, sometimes somber, sometimes soaring, oftentimes lilting, but always fetching. What Makes Milwaukee Famous makes is sound easy on What Doesn’t Kill Us. It is tighter and more propulsive than its predecessor (their 2006 debut, Trying To Never Catch Up which I also enjoyed) but ultimately shows a band that can wear its own shoes even if they are still growing into ‘em. Pick up a copy of What Doesn’t Kill Us from our friends over at Barsuk Records. RIYL: Spoon, the Shins, Rogue Wave, etc…
MP3 | What Made Milwaukee Famous – Resistance St. What Doesn’t Kill Us
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