MARKED MEN - On The Outside LP exotica as frontman and prime creative

as frontman and prime creative force in Pavement

inky expanses modulating tonal ambience play against cycling

as they do deliver some much-welcomed variety of sounds and timbres onto an already fairly stangant band that had its two band members

offering proof that the age-old dichotomy of “political bands” versus “apolitical bands” simply doesn’t exist

MARKED MEN - On The Outside LP exotica as frontman and prime creative"As great as the Reds were, the Marked Men upped the ante considerably, marrying the intensity and rhythmic sensibility of the Reds with pop songwriting of the highest caliber. It may sound trite to say, but the Marked Men's sound was reminiscent a more rapid and organic version of transition between the savage attack of Teengenerate and the powerful pop (but not power pop!) of Firestarter. What made this metamorphosis even more impressive was that