Patty Hurst Shifter - Too Crowded On The Losing End

There's a lot of Gin Blossoms in Patty Hurst Shifter. Happy? would fit right in on New Miserable Experience with the shrewdness of its key changes and the relentless downbeat vision of it all: 'Spitting true love like it was cyanide / And you're always faking suicide / Like it's the only way you're ever gonna be / Happy'. All these songs are about horrible relationships, and there is a bottomless pit of sorrow in Chris Smith's soul: 'There are many shades of sadness / Baby more than I can count / Here's to ya baby / Hope you never find out / Cause eventually / She breaks everything that she sees'.

Neat riffs! Brilliant and depressing words! That's yer Patty Hurst Shifter, right there.Too Crowded on the Losing End is a great record by a group that is not really as good as any of its major parents, yet, but these guys are full of potential and bear watching. In the meantime, the album is a whole lot of sad fun. ~ Pop Matters

Listen to samples:

• She's Like A Song
• Never Know
• When You Lie
• Shake
• For The Record
• Sadder Side
• Happy?
• All Washed Up
• Break Everything
• Shine
• Acetylene
• Worth