Track Listing

1. The House That Guilt Built
2. Happy
3. She Sends Kisses
4. This Boy Is Exhausted
5. Hopeless
6. Faster Gun
7. Thirteen Grand
8. Boys, You Won't
9. Ex-Girl Collection
10. Per Second Second
11. Everyone Chooses Sides
12. 13 Months In 6 Minutes
13. This Is Not What You Had Planned

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73276 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-09
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
2003 album from the New Jersey combo is a record by a tremendously underrated band and a much welcome comeback. 13 tracks. Absolutely Kosher.

Customer Reviews

great service, boring music
amazon - great service in getting me the CD. After a couple of full listens i tossed it in great disappointment - just did not hold my interest

Avoid the hype
The words boring, conservative, soulless college / indie rock spring to mind. Overrated as heck...usually by readers of Uncut magazine or Pitchfork. Yuk!

a new classic
With the exception of the last track (clearly an "outtake" that should have been left behind) this album is perfect and still deserves 5 stars. The arrangements are subtle and well considered: emphasizing the fuzzy guitar and melodious bass, they're not afraid to add a synth, or even accordion, when it fits. The vocals are mumbly and understated, filling the song as another instrument would, rather than as a singer plus backup. At various moments they resemble early R.E.M., Radiohead, and (in their quieter songs) the Shins but this is not a derivative band by any means. Simply put, the Wrens know, as well as ony of those more famous acts, how to write and perform a beautiful song; and they put a dozen of them together for this remarkable self-produced album.