★★★★★
Modern Baseball's sophomore release, You're Gonna Miss It All, is not a brilliantly crafted work of art. Heck, the guitar/vocals duo of Brendan Lukens and Jake Ewald really aren't that technically good at singing. It is clear Modern Baseball don't write beautifully composed and arranged pieces of music and that this album will probably never make a 'best of' list.
With that being said, don't write this record off for a second...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-07-14
★★★★★
It's very likely that pop punk - good, honest pop punk, pop punk about pizza and heartbreak and how you're too good for this town - never really went away, but it seemed like it did. It seemed a lot like emo killed it at the same time as it was raising it up because all of a sudden it was about skinny jeans and synths and no one was wearing scuffed up vans and writing songs about girls called 'Chelsea' or 'Allison' anymore...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-07-09
★★★★★
Modern Baseball is a young outfit, that much is clear from their sophomore record, You're Gonna Miss It All. But this youth, it's kind of timeless put to song. It's the kind of thing that can cut to bone if you're young, just getting out of high school or--like the band's players--just getting going in college. But if you're older, it can remind you of that time in your life, of how it felt to be lost and confused and on the edge of heartbreak...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-05-03
★★★★★
[Editor's Note- This is a dissenting review. See, also, this review.]
The first time I heard Modern Baseball I was sitting in a dark dingy bar Downriver, an area south of Detroit that has an equally depressing atmosphere as the once thriving city. Flowing though the speakers were descriptive melancholy lyrics over passive aggressive rock guitars, which felt fitting. Taking an interest in the music, I asked my friend who this band was. Between the two of us, we couldn't figure it out...
- www.punknews.org
2014-03-06
★★★★★
Philadelphia's Modern Baseball is about as talented as they come on the pop-punk/emo circuit. The band's debut album, Sports, showcased its wit and creativity through the use of tasteful acoustic guitars and interesting dynamic changes, which were particularly on display on Tears Over Beers. But if there is one characteristic that Modern Baseball conveys more than anything else, it's spite...
- www.cmj.com
2014-02-21
★★★★★
Modern Baseball is one of those bands that you knew would grow and grow quickly. Their music has a catchy spring in its step and as rude, smug and candid as it plays out, there's just too much emotional fodder to latch onto. They have a neat formula of using acoustic structures to build indie-punk ballads that linger on the more upbeat side of things, but one thing's for certain -- they mix it up well...
- www.punknews.org
2014-02-14
★★★★★
Modern Baseball's You're Gonna Miss It All is a sophomoric album in multiple ways. It's the Philadelphia band's second full-length, for one thing. Beyond that, Brendan Lukens recently finished his second year at Drexel University, and he never lets you forget what 21-year-old college students are often like--culturally literate, if not necessarily "book smart," blurring the line between introspective and self-obsessed, impressed by their capacity for clever wordplay and emotional awareness...
- pitchfork.com
2014-02-11
★★★★★
Modern Baseball have always been inconsistent songwriters. The majority of tunes on the band's debut album worked, but the occasional track faltered. This wasn't much of an issue as most of the songs on barely crossed the two minute mark, leaving little room for disappointment when a track didn't work quite as well as the others. Modern Baseball's sophomore effort is no different in this regard...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-02-12
★★★★★
I really, really don't like the term guilty pleasure. I think it's a dirty phrase that's used too often by people who don't feel guilty at all about liking whatever they're talking about. I used to describe the Snakes On A Plane theme song as a guilty pleasure (while we're here: that song is a undoubtedly a high in Crush Management's dominance over the world), but then I thought about it and decided that "guilty pleasures" do not exist...
- absolutepunk.net
2014-02-10
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