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Welcome Interstate Managers
by Fountains Of Wayne
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Overall Rating:
3.2974
Avg. Critic Score:
3.2148
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SplendidWelcome Interstate Managers is a watershed accomplishment, surpassing the band's debut in terms of whimsical pop songcraft, lyrical astuteness and blind melodic ambition. ...more
The Daily Vault Album ReviewsI have a long history of falling in love with things -- girls, cars, food, bands. When I like something right away, I typically like it a LOT. This has, at times, resulted in acute embarrassment when I've later come to my senses and gained ...more
Stylus MagazineThe All Music Guide reviews Fountains of Wayneâs second album, 1999âsUtopia Parkway, as follows: âThere's no denying that Fountains of Wayne know how to craft a great pop record. They know how to write a hook, they can pull of ...more
FazedAfter two albums of nearly flawless power-pop in the late 90s for Atlantic think Matthew Sweet, the dBs, Teenage Fanclub, the Posies, the earlier, Chris Bell-era Big Star that were good enough records to win them a loyal core following, but ...more
ShakingThrough.netNot only their crowning achievement to date but also one of the year's finest albums, period. ...more
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Village Voice (Consumer Guide)Their tunes have always seemed too facile, but seven years divided by three albums doesn't equal glib, especially with those years deepening their lyricism rather than their cynicism. ...more
PopMattersWelcome Interstate Managers is the welcome aural equivalent of a great collection of short stories, each song offering a little snippet from a life, and presenting a range of characters to fill this musical spectrum. ...more
Stylus MagazineThe record is sprawling and beautiful, a genuine pop masterpiece through and through. ...more
Flak MagazineCarved into the glittering surface of its obsessively polished pop jewels are the biographies of horny schoolkids, laid-off airline pilots, aspiring salesmen reeling from scotch and soda -- in short, credible characters sculpted with music. ...more
BillboardThe group encapsulates the Atlantic seacoast just as 1980s twangers the dBs embodied the South and the Beach Boys captured California. ...more
Neumu.netThis is exactly the album that should be blasting from car radios all summer. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)Even at their most piercingly observant, Collingwood and Schlesinger never lose their warmth for their subjects, and their lack of condescension comes through in the music, as well. ...more
PrefixMagAdam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood, the core of Fountains of Wayne, have had the past four years to mollify the sting of critical negativity they received, not all that unrightfully, after releasing their second full-length, Utopia Parkway . ...more
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