The Hardest Way | |
Type: | album |
Artist: | The Original Sins |
Cover: | The Original Sins - The Hardest Way.JPG |
Released: | 1989 |
Recorded: | Water Music, Hoboken, N.J. |
Genre: | Garage punk |
Length: | 41:50 (vinyl edition) 55:53 (CD edition) |
Label: | Psonik |
Producer: | Dave Stein, John Terlesky |
Prev Title: | Big Soul |
Prev Year: | 1987 |
Next Title: | Self Destruct |
Next Year: | 1990 |
The Hardest Way is an album by the American garage punk band The Original Sins.[1] It was released in 1989 by Psonik Records.[2]
The CD version of the album includes bonus tracks taken from the band's Australia-only extended play, Party's Over.
Trouser Press wrote that the album "demonstrates the Sins’ marvelous ability to synthesize an original sound — less stylized than the Lyres’ — from now-standard ingredients."[2] The Morning Call listed The Hardest Way on their list of the top 10 albums of 1989, writing that "the Sins' second LP is an embarrassment of riches; it's fiercer, more melodic, more complex and more danceable than their debut, Big Soul."[3] Spin wrote that "the songs fit more comfortably into standard 60s punk grooves."[4]
All songs written by John Terlesky