The Museum Pieces
Philadelphia
(independent)
Jeff Tweedy once said he started writing about the little things because in them he found the big things. On his first album as a member of The Museum Pieces, Tyler Messick has also made this important step. Using smaller pieces, both instrumentally and lyrically, he has paint- ed a bigger picture. It’s best illustrated in “I Know You Too Well,” made up of fragments anchored by a grinding bassline. It’s like nothing the band has done in the past and tears limits off what they might do in the future.
—Matt Charlton
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.