CD Review: Mo Beauty

Band: Alec Ounsworth
Label: Anti-
Release: October 20, 2009

1. “Modern Girl” – 8.3
2. “Bones in the Grave” – 7.9
3. “Holy, Holy, Holy Moses” – 9.2
4. “That Is Not My Home” – 9.5
5. “Idiots in the Rain” – 8.2
6. “South Philadelphia” – 8.4
7. “What Fun.” – 8.2
8. “Me And You Watson” – 7.8
9. “Obscene Queen Bee #2” – 9.4
10. “When You’ve No Eyes” – 9.0

Comments: Flashy Python > Alec Ounsworth. How can an alter-ego of a man be better than the man himself? It’s possible and evident on this album. There seems to be a lot more dispiriting nooks and crannies on Mo Beauty; a greater dichotomy of styles than on Skin and Bones. The quasi-minimalism that reigns on tracks like “Obscene Queen Bee #2,” “That Is Not My Home,” and “Holy, Holy, Holy Moses” is Ounsworth at his best. For such a highly anticipated album, I am disappointed.

Grade: 8.6

4 thoughts on “CD Review: Mo Beauty”

  1. I love how you give this album an 8.6, yet you’re “disappointed.” Your ratings are always so high lol.

  2. Haha this is so true. My system needs some fixing. Anything that is listenable or at least falls into a genre of music that I can bear will get at least a 7 or 8. For starters, that is.

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