In the short time I have been acquainted with The Muster Point Project I have come to love their music. I say that about a lot of bands, but this time I really mean it. Sure, there is more music being made than ever in the modern age, but that means that there is more dross to wade through – mumbling rappers, karaoke pop stars, deluded cliched rockers, and the like – none of whom really know how to write infectious, memorable, and meaningful songs. It’s why they have such big marketing teams. The Muster Point Project writes infectious, memorable, and meaningful songs that market themselves.
Their music works because the songs seem familiar, yet fresh, both in terms of the sound they make and the stories they tell. Small-town songs, peopled by the likes of you and me, kitchen sink dramas, fond nostalgia and acceptance of changing times, views of the world just like our own, honesty and reality—all put to deft and perfectly formed indie-folk-rock sounds.
It is a testament to the band’s songwriting that about half the album has already been released as singles, but then again, everything here feels like you have heard it before—not in the sense that the songs are just a re-run of what has gone before, but in the sense that they already feel like established classics, they arrive with their own sense of gravitas and history.
As I say, I’m relatively new to the band, but if you told me that It Was Here He Received His Only Formal Education was a singles compilation and not merely their third regular album, I would believe every word you said. And you would too.
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