Talk:Aneuretical
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I've deleted the stand-alone pages for these reviews. You can add them to the main Aneuretical entry if you want. --Michael Wells 13:35, 10 Jan 2007 (CST)
Amplifier Magazine Review (10.06.06)
Minneapolis trio Aneuretical has already garnered plenty of positive press at home and beyond with their first two albums; their third, Million Dollar Man, is a sure bet to follow suit. *Bassist/vocalist Matthew Sandstedt (who splits his time with Ampersand) works the mic with the part-earnest-rock-singer/part oddball-parodist adenoidal intensity of a gene splice between Billy Corgan, John Flansburgh and Perry Farrell, while guitarist Ian Anderson (no, not that one) and drummer Elliot Manthey (also of One for the Team) combine with Sandstedt to create a moody soundscape that shifts seamlessly from emo to prog to jazzy math rock with precision and authority. *This would all be enough to inspire respect for Aneuretical without the realization that none of the three has quite reached adulthood proper. This is a very thoughtful and mature sound for so young a band, but then it is their third effort - another impressive stat considering they can’t yet take a legal drink. Aneuretical is head music with heart from the very young. ~ Brian Baker
Smother Review - Editor's Pick (9.06.06)
Releasing a filthy deluge of agnostic guitar noodlings, Aneuretical laughs off any criticism, noting that’s stemming from jealousy and outright envy. Their biosheet has a tour section that reads off like the Indie Bible’s Who’s Who of Amazingly Talented Bands I’d Like to Tour with For $1000 *Alex: Xiu Xiu, the Hold Steady, the Thermals, and the Good Life, amongst many other lucky individuals and groups. Once again they unleash a torrential downpour of angst-riddle emotional rock that casts aside any sort of rumored intervention in the heavy department with spastic guitars and eclectic vocal deliveries. It may be a bit eccentric but “Million Dollar Man” is the ruby-tinged album to the Oscar-winning “Million Dollar Baby”. I like it. And if you have ears, you will too.
City Pages Review December 1, 2004
Don't let Matt Standstedt's Lollipop Kid vocals fool you. Aneuretical's rock reconstructionist strategies on When You Were a Kid carry them far closer to the makeshift labs of punk futurists These Arms Are Snakes and Vaux than anyplace Good Charlotte would want to call home. The Eden Prairie-based teen terror trio twist everything they touch, hanging "Hampers Are Hideouts" like a backyard blanket tent over sumptuous chord progressions and lyrics suggesting that Standstedt has been cutting his nitrous with the contents of Baltimore shapeshifter Cex's stash. "I'm just sound," the munchkin bassist yelps repeatedly on the ode to lost places of concealment, while drummer Noah Paster and guitar prodigy Ian Anderson (no, not that one) cover his ass admirably with slippery sheets of sound.
- By Rod Smith
