Meneguar
Strangers In Our House

THE REVIEW

To eventually boast to someone, remembering the days of my youth and the cool music I listened to when I still had a full head of hair, I look around. Every day at least ten albums are released and it's hard to keep up with everything, perhaps impossible. It's easy, therefore, to miss something, even easier to miss something that has no intention of being discovered.

The Meneguar are four guys from Brooklyn who debuted in 2005 with a self-produced cassette, "I Was Born At Night" (then reissued in 2006, appropriately, on CD), and in 2007 they released this "Strangers In Our House" which is nothing short of a nearly perfect album.

"Strangers In Our House" is a mix of distant things. Echoes of Fugazi, Superchunk, Dinosaur Jr, Polvo, Sebadoh, Motorpsycho, create this cocktail that despite everything follows its own path made of clear melody, loud voice, direct songs, and lots of sweat in eleven tracks, necessary and sufficient certainties, which do not lose rhythm in their sharp progression and which also end up putting you in a good mood in what is an album that has been long awaited, like a ray of light descending from this lead-colored sky (AUCHTUNG: third-rate metaphor regarding the current state of Indie music).

A lot of music, zero compromises and now, six months later, a new home-recorded album is on the way, in a "whatever happens" fashion, "The In Hour".

Prolific, rowdy, quite foolish, graceless, and unfortunate. Listen to me: jot down these Meneguar in the reminder list of things to listen to and start boasting about having followed them from the start because it will be worth it and now...