Meanwhile In Collegeville

by Rob Rapp

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1.	Cig 00:49	buy track
2.	Dysfunctional Machine 02:36	buy track
3.	Legends Of The Ledge 02:07	buy track
4.	Laundry's Done 03:16	buy track
5.	Oh Great Oh Shit 01:39	buy track
6.	A E I O U and Sometimes Y 02:06	buy track
7.	On To The Capitol 04:51	buy track
8.	Not Our Fault 03:46	buy track
9.	Nobody Knows (Where Rosemary Goes) 03:55	buy track
10.	Amenities 02:04	buy track
11.	8am In The Factory 01:22	buy track
12.	Rachel Gives 02:39	buy track
13.	Bacton Hill 02:25	buy track
14.	Cig Diet 02:42	buy track

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Rob Rapp’s Meanwhile in Collegeville has me dialing 1-9-9-3. But who’s answering? This isn’t Robert Pollard redux. Sure, it’s lo-fi (as fuck); and the pop [-craft] is tip-top. But while GbV gave gold stars to robot boy, Rapp is dealing with Rachel Levine and “dysfunctional machines.” It’s been a loooong 30 years; and with Meanwhile in Collegeville, Rapp stakes a solid claim as poet laureate of the American nightmare. It’s “8am in the factory” (“I feel alive,” Rapp sings doubtfully). In a few hours, a couple hundred “misled fucks” will storm the capitol. Meanwhile, in Phoenixville (at the Luxor, sources say), the rent is too damn high: “Then in 1995/I never thought that I would strive/to live this large/to be in charge/of such a hefty rental fee.” Nor I, my brother. At least we have Meanwhile in Collegeville, 14 fuzzy, jagged indie-pop pills. Get in, kids: we’re going back to Bacton.

Ian Criterion, Flap Magazine

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released October 6, 2023

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