Mattachine!, by The Ballet

Mattachine!

by The Ballet

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cryptoquip Lyrics that are bitter, ironic, wistful, queer. Every song hits me right where I need it. I treasure this album. Favorite track: Tell Me How.

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1.	Personal 03:24	buy track
2.	Cheating on Your Boyfriend 03:16	buy track
3.	When You Go Dancing 02:38	buy track
4.	The Face of Everything 02:19	buy track
5.	Clay 02:42	buy track
6.	The Start Song 03:42	buy track
7.	In My Head 03:38	buy track
8.	Tell Me How 03:12	buy track
9.	Corduroy 03:49	buy track
10.	I Hate the War 03:36	buy track
11.	The Movement 03:10	buy track
12.	I'm Not Gonna Tell You Anything 04:13	buy track

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"The 11 cuts on their self-released debut, Mattachine!, are literate, adult, slyly-permissive contemplations on not simply love, but rather modern romance’s quirks and moral ambiguities." -- NY Press

"In the face of the increasing mainstreaming of gayness, Mattachine! spelunks the often unrevealed vagaries of contemporary queer life. Recalling Holiday-era Magnetic Fields, these songs bop with heady buoyancy, yet are underpinned by complicated butt universal themes: self-deception, infidelity without shame, war fatigue and finding love in a world of online hookups. This is no list of laments; each song celebrates these quandaries." -- Time Out New York

"Totally brilliant, full of adorable, infectious songs that toe a line between 60s bubblegum pop and stylized 90s indie pop. Their orchestral pop is driven by brilliant melodies you can't believe haven't been used before." -- The L Magazine

"The Ballet excels in the sort of three-minute ear candy that boys and girls have been writing about each other for ages. That the band members so effortlessly co-opt the form to detail the gay scene is at once more interesting than the same old he-said/she-said and as casually revolutionary only in its universal likeability." -- Prefix Magazine

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released July 21, 2006

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The Ballet

gay nerd band
2005 - present

discography

Come Back

Jun 2020
Dear Daniel

May 2020
Time Machine

Jul 2013
I Blame Society

Jun 2013
BEAR LIFE

Nov 2009
Mattachine!

Jul 2006

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