No Way (album) explained

No Way
Type:studio
Artist:Run On
Cover:Run On - No Way.jpg
Released:February 25, 1997
Recorded:October 1996
Studio:Idful, Chicago, Illinois
Genre:Indie rock, art rock
Length:46:30
Label:Matador[1]
Producer:Run On
Prev Title:Start Packing
Prev Year:1996
Next Title:Scoot
Next Year:1997

No Way is the second album by Run On, released in 1997 through Matador Records.[2] [3]

Critical reception

Tucson Weekly called the album "phenomenal," writing that "Run On delivers avant-garde pop of a ... dark sensibility with a sophisticated, technically educated and carefully orchestrated approach."[4] The Austin Chronicle praised the "lo-fi production, mudfuzz guitar with tom-tom driven Delta rhythms, graveyard violin, and Sue Garner's dusty-road clarion call (hubby Rick Brown and guitarist Alan Licht also sing), all wrapped around hooky pop songs."

Guitar Player wrote that Alan Licht surrounds Garner's vocals "with ominous clouds of droning feedback, supporting the song's melodic flow for two or three verses before unleashing a short, furious storm of groans, squeals and rapid-fire hammer-ons."[5] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that the "nine originals [span] the indie-pop spectrum from the impossibly quirky 'As Good As New' to the heartbreaking violin-fueled lament, 'Anything You Say'."[6]

Personnel

Run On
Production and additional personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Run On – No Way – This Day In Matador History.
  2. Web site: Run On | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  3. Scott . Schinder . Run On . . 2007 . March 31, 2013.
  4. Web site: Tucson Weekly: Soundbites (October 2 - October 8, 1997). www.tucsonweekly.com.
  5. Run on: Alan Licht's meat candy . Guitar Player . Jun 1997 . 31 . 6 . 20.
  6. The Buzz . Pittsburgh Post-Gazette . 17 Sep 1997 . E5.