| Can't Maintain | ||||
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| Released | October 13, 2009 | |||
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| Length | 28:23 | |||
| Label | Asian Man | |||
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| Punknews.org |   [1] |
| Sputnikmusic |  [2] |
Can't Maintain (stylized as can't maintain.) is the third studio album by AJJ. [3]
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]
All lyrics are written by Sean Bonnette; all music is composed by AJJ
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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]
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