Bruised Music, Volume 2

Reception

Spin: "This is meat-and-potatoes rock with all meat — even the slow songs have that lo-fi-equivalent-of-brickwalled feel. Vol. 2 starts out more promising than Predatory Headlights, but sometime after the unsettled harmonies and piano plinks of “Perverse Universe” give way to the Tortoise-like interlude “Jet Slug,” the repetition becomes inconsequential; just bask in the roil.(...)So a singular band s**tting out smart records at a tour-warrior’s pace isn’t actually solving a rockist’s problem, but their body of work is pretty captivating for a flawed one. Maybe when Tenement gets bored of doing things on their own terms, they’ll try their hand at perfection."

Punknews: "Tenement’s musical palette sounds more refined than the initial collection, but it doesn’t paint the group as tame; the songwriting is still fierce and is captivatingly unique.(...)There are very few bands (or none at all) that can pound out a song with so much rhythmic skill; songs take so many unpredictable moves and the drums never stay in one place for more than a few measures.(...)On Bruised Music: Volume 2, every song is a boundary shove for what punk bands could be doing within a genre if they had the willingness to create."

Track listing

All compositions by Amos Pitsch except where noted.

1. "Taking Everything"
2. "Freak Cast in Iron" (Jesse Ponkamo/Amos Pitsch)
3. "The Block Is Safe Again"
4. "Paper Airplanes"
5. "Wouldn't Let You Go"
6. "Perverse Universe"
7. "Jet Slug"
8. "Your Life Or Mine"
9. "Blast Exhaust"
10. "Books On Hell And Sermons On T.V."
11. "The Way It All Seems"
12. "Violent Outlet"
13. "Daylight World"
14. "Your Sway (Keeps The Rot Away)"