- Have You Seen Me?
- All These Things
- It's Not Too Late
- Today Was Long
- Best Dependent
- Me First
- The Mission
- Armchair Sanctuary
- Everything So Far
- You Got Me
- I'll Never Understand
- Empty/Resolve
The temptation is to dismiss Last Tuesday as yet another punk rock band in an already crowded scene. However, this trio from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania already has celebrity credentials. Their national debut,
This energetic album refrains from overproduction without sounding raw or amateur. Thiessen apparently helped to shape the melodic pop aspects while Marlett encouraged the band to let loose their inner rock animals. The little touches also help, varying up the arrangements while broadening the sonic palette to add some occasional keyboards and percussion to the usual guitar, bass, and drums.
Additionally, Last Tuesday is intentional-yet-clever about their faith, even depicting the sign of the benediction and
Yet it's not hard to figure out who guitarist Steve Gee is singing to in the worshipful finale or "Today Was Long": "You know I want to be strong/But then it's hard to see how you're controlling everything/And how I need you now." It's also refreshing to see someone taking the youth's passive cynicism toward the church to task in "Armchair Sanctuary."