Can't Maintain

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Can't Maintain
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 13, 2009
Genre
Length28:23
Label Asian Man
Andrew Jackson Jihad chronology
Operation Stackola
(2009)
Can't Maintain
(2009)
Knife Man
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Can't Maintain (stylized as can't maintain.) is the third studio album by Andrew Jackson Jihad. [3]

Contents

Production

Jeff Rosenstock played horns and theremin on the album. [4] The release was mastered by Carl Saff. In 2019, AJJ frontman Sean Bonnette ranked Can't Maintain as his third favorite album from the band's six releases to date [5] and described it as "the only record thus far where we knew the sequence going into it." [5] In 2019, AJJ celebrated the album's 10th anniversary by playing it in full at a fundraising concert in Phoenix, Arizona. [6] [7]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Sean Bonnette; all music is composed by Andrew Jackson Jihad

No.TitleLength
1."Heartilation"2:01
2."Self Esteem"1:36
3."Love in the Time of Human Papillomavirus"2:04
4."Evil"2:06
5."You Don't Deserve Yourself"2:30
6."Olde(y) Tyme(y)"1:09
7."Kazoo Sonata in Cmaj"1:17
8."We Didn't Come Here to Rock"2:23
9."Truckers Are the Blood"3:01
10."Love Will Fuck Us Apart"1:44
11."Sense, Sensibility"2:16
12."Who Are You?"2:40
13."White Face, Black Eyes"3:26
Total length:28:23

Reception

Adam Finley, writing for PopMatters , described Can't Maintain as one of the best albums of 2009. [8] Robin Smith of PopMatters wrote that the album "opened with scuzzy electric guitars and pounding drums" and called the track "We Didn't Come Here to Rock" a "delightfully ironic rocker." [9] The A.V. Club included the track “Who Are You?” in its list of songs about bad fathers, adding that Bonnette "[coats] his complex emotions in witty one-liners." [10]

Personnel

Andrew Jackson Jihad

Additional personnel

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References

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  2. Can't Maintain review Sputnikmusic. Published December 13, 2009. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. Can't Maintain at AllMusic . Retrieved May 25, 2014.
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  5. 1 2 Dan Ozzi (2019) "AJJ’s Sean Bonnette Ranks the Band’s Six Albums" Noisey . Published February 1, 2019. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  6. Amy Young (2019) "AJJ Celebrates Can't Maintain's Anniversary at Cowtown S.K.A.T.E.'s Annual Fundraiser" Phoenix New Times . Published October 1, 2020. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
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