Someday Everything Will Be Fine

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Someday Everything Will Be Fine
Spider Bags - Someday Everything Will Be Fine.png
Studio album by
Spider Bags
ReleasedAugust 3, 2018 (2018-08-03)
RecordedJune 2017 – January 2018
StudioBunker Audio, Memphis, Tennessee [1]
Genre
Length38:35
Label Merge
Spider Bags chronology
Frozen Letter
(2014)		Someday Everything Will Be Fine
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.2/10 [4]
Metacritic 81/100 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Blurt Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [1]
Exclaim! 8/10 [6]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork 7/10 [8]

Someday Everything Will Be Fine is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band Spider Bags. It was released on August 3, 2018, by Merge Records. [9]

Contents

Production

The album was recorded at Bunker Audio in Memphis, Tennessee, with producer Andrew McCalla, and features collaborations with Jack Oblivian, John Whittemore, Jana Misener, Krista Wroten-Combest, Patrick Stickles and Matthew Hoopengardner. [9]

Release

On June 20, 2018, Spider Bags announced the release of their fifth studio album, along with the single "Cop Dream/Black Eye". [9]

On July 30, 2018, the music video to "Oxcart Blues" was released, with director Malachi Cull. [10]

Critical reception

Someday Everything Will Be Fine was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81 based on 7 reviews. [5] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 75 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 6 reviews. [2]

Mark Deming of AllMusic noted how the band sounded a "little less punk and a bit more rock" on the release, while explaining the album "is an object lesson in how maturity and progress don't have to be the enemies of snarky, passionate rock & roll, and this is music that satisfies on several levels at once." [3] Barry Vitus from Blurt gave the release five out of five stars, explaining that it "injected a new, creative energy into the band. The chemistry imbued by the helping hands and producer were significant to the end product." [1] Writer Michael Hann of The Guardian gave the album four out of five stars, noting "their fifth album sound more of-the-moment than the previous four, not least because its opening track, Reckless, perfectly embodies that heavy, heavy slacker sound." [7]

Track listing

Someday Everything Will Be Fine track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Reckless"Dan McGee5:34
2."Oxcart Blues"Dan McGee2:44
3."Alligator"Joseph Plunket2:37
4."Burning Sand"Dan McGee4:30
5."Cop Dream/Black Eye (True Story)"Dan McGee0:59
6."My Heart Is a Flame in Reverse"Dan McGee6:26
7."Tonight, I Walk on the Water"Dan McGee1:23
8."Ninety Day Dog" 4:09
9."Apocalypso"Dan McGee4:50
10."Rollin' with the Flow"Jerry Hayes5:23

Personnel

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  2. 1 2 "Album of the Year Review". Album of the Year. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Deming, Mark. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ "AnyDecentMusic? Review". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic . Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  6. ↑ Torrey, Owen (July 31, 2018). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim! . Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  7. 1 2 Hann, Michael (August 3, 2018). "Someday Everything Will Be Fine review – fuzzy veterans ride an alt-rock ripple". The Guardian . Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  8. ↑ Savage Levenson, Max (August 8, 2018). "Pitchfork Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  9. 1 2 3 Schatz, Lake (June 20, 2018). "Spider Bags announce new album, Someday Everything Will Be Fine, share "Cop Dream/Black Eye (True Story)"". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Spider Bags - Oxcart Blues". YouTube . Retrieved October 7, 2020.
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