Pretty Music for Pretty People | ||||
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Released | October 7, 2014 | |||
Genre | Punk rock, Alternative rock | |||
Length | 51:25 | |||
Label | Quid Ergo | |||
Producer | Brian McTear and Amy Morrissey | |||
The Dead Milkmen chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Alternative Press | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
PopMatters | 8/10 [2] |
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Pretty Music for Pretty People is the tenth studio album by the Dead Milkmen, released in 2014. [4] [5] It is their second studio album since reuniting in 2008. [6]
The album includes the four limited-release singles that followed 2011's The King in Yellow: ("Dark Clouds Gather Over Middlemarch", "Big Words Make the Baby Jesus Cry", "The Great Boston Molasses Flood", and "Welcome to Undertown"), and most of the b-sides from those singles, which first appeared in 2012 and 2013, in addition to previously unreleased songs. [4]
It was released on CD on the Quid Ergo Records imprint, and digitally by the band on their website on October 7, 2014. A limited edition LP with the title Pretty Music For Pretty Special People was also released by Quid Ergo, containing only the previously unreleased songs, plus the "C-Sides" from the singles which had until then only been available digitally. [7]
The album was recorded at Miner Street Studios, in Philadelphia, by Brian McTear and Amy Morrissey.[ citation needed]
The Portland Mercury wrote: "Switching gears from hardcore to new wave to electro-inspired songs like the uncomfortably satirical 'Anthropology Days'—with lyrics inspired by various horrific and ridiculous forgotten factoids from history—they're still some of the greatest architects of observant punk rock." [8]