Blog: Citizen Dick

Some albums make me think of cinema while still others remind me of loosely edited anthology collections. To follow this cultural artifact metaphorical trend, the latest effort by Madison, Wisconsin's His and Her Vanities is a novella, a picture pretty work of hopeless anxiety. Trim as can be, The Mighty Lunge gets a lot of angst-inducing uncertainty into its 29 1/2 minutes, a testament as much to the coherent and singular thematic focus of the album as to band principals (and married duo) Ricky and Terrin Reimer's handiness with crafting compact, to-the-point-and-no-further songs. [...]

• His & Her Vanities - Hits Like Hail
• His & Her Vanities - Wait it out