All the Falsest Hearts Can Try


All The Falsest Hearts Can Try is a full-length album by Centro-Matic, released in 2000.

Critical reception

Texas Monthly wrote that the band's "indie-rock allegiances remain strong enough that many songs here are actually oblique, bittersweet meditations on the mythology of those allegiances." NME called the album "yet more rough-hewn genius-in-the-making from the same American heartlands that threw up the likes of The Flaming Lips and Uncle Tupelo." The Chicago Tribune called it "brilliantly raw," writing: "Here is a group of musicians whose talent and experience pulls them toward perfection, though they'll happily sacrifice technical recording quality for musical quantity." MTV wrote that "the sonic mudbath, along with Centro-matic's deliberate bush-league musicianship, exquisitely compliments Johnson's songs, a twangy mix of Crazy Horse raunch and sweet acoustic balladeering."

Track listing

  1. Cool That You Showed Us How
  2. The Blisters May Come
  3. Call the Legion in Tonight
  4. In the Strategy Room
  5. Huge in Every City
  6. Saving a Free Seat
  7. Save Us, Tothero
  8. Most Everyone Will Find
  9. Gas Blowin’ Out of Our Eyes
  10. Hercules Now!
  11. Magic Cyclops
  12. Would Go Over
  13. Members of The Show ‘em How It's Done
  14. Aerial Spins/Nautical Wilderness

Personnel