The Volunteers

by Onelinedrawing

Overview

After the release of his debut as Onelinedrawing, Jonah Matranga toured relentlessly with bombastic groups including Thursday, Coheed & Cambria, and the Weakerthans -- and on The Volunteers, it shows. No longer are the arrangements dominated by hush vocals and spare instrumentation. The Volunteers is gifted with smashing anthems like "We Had a Deal" (which could be Ryan Adams-penned). But Matranga doesn't completely abandon the original template, and the echoey and sparse bits create a now familiar but still effective loud/soft dynamic that is unstoppable. Even when the songwriting is odd (the start-stop "Over It"), it's because Matranga is masterfully constructing a setup to transition into pure pop grandiosity. Onelinedrawing, in general, may be a bit too saccharine for some listeners, and it lacks the classic power pop levity of a Brendan Benson or Weakerthans, but The Volunteers is a wildly inventive record that can stand tall beside earnest peers like Saves the Day's In Reverie. ~ Charles Spano

Product Details

Release Date:	08/19/2022
Label:	Jade Tree Records
UPC:	0045778217908
Rank:	122061

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Onelinedrawing   Primary Artist
Jonah Matranga   Director
Ian Love   Guitar (Electric)
Shara Worden   Voices,Wurlitzer,Xylophone,Guitar (Electric)
Me   Vocals
Rohner Segnitz   Piano
New York   Voices

Technical Credits

Dave Sardy   Engineer,Mixing
Will Quinnell   Mixing,Engineer,Mastering
Geoff Rickly   Liner Notes
Jonah Matranga   Producer
Ian Love   Engineer
Dana Gumbiner   Engineer
Onelinedrawing   Composer
Me   Mixing,Engineer
Chad Waldrup   Composer,Instrumentation
Rohner Segnitz   Design,Artwork,Layout Design