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Celebrate – never before has a word been loaded to do with something so raw. By their own admission, Tiny Moving Parts’ third album is as much a cathartic release on the nature of trying to make the most of our time on the planet as it is a rock record.
Celebrate manages to be joyous, happy, celebratory if you will, but far from the saccharine nature that modern pop-punk seems to find itself in. Whether it be because of the technical math-rock standpoint that Tiny Moving Parts are coming at the writing from, or because of the deeply personal nature that Dylan Mattheisen’s lyrics have, this stands head and shoulders over much of what else has come out that sounds even vaguely like this.
Pop-punk, emo and math-rock fans will all find something to enjoy on Celebrate. The album is bouncy and full of more catchy melodies than any recent release you care to mention, making it a great release for the occasional blasts of summer we get. But the lyrics are so melancholic and the delivery so raw that it wouldn’t be out of place as the soundtrack to a walk around the frozen streets in the dead of winter.
On Celebrate, Tiny Moving Parts demonstrate where they are right now and where they are going. There’s a bit less of the twiddly, tippy-tappy guitar lines and strange time signatures and polyrhythms that a lot of math-rock fans would be drawn to (though these are still there). This album is probably going to slip under the radar for a lot of people, but those who do give it a spin are going to be so much the better for it.
