Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Deadmalls and Nightfalls is the second full-length studio album by Frontier Ruckus, released on July 20, 2010 by Ramseur Records. The album received positive reviews. PopMatters stated that the record "not only outdoes its predecessor, it reaches a level of top-notch songwriting most groups never attain on a greatest hits compilation"—calling it a "a musical map to the psyches of its performers."Under the Radar wrote that "Deadmalls and Nightfalls paints pictures, in vivid imagery of American scenery, life, and love, with not a single word misplaced in its poetic grace...an album meant to be combed through and listed to time and again, an album to bask in."The album can be seen as the second installment in a trilogy of personal mythology set in Metro Detroit—bridging The Orion Songbook and Eternity of Dimming. Songs such as "Pontiac, the Nighbrink"—an intensely detailed depiction of Pontiac, Michigan—foreshadowed the zoomed-in specificity with which Eternity would explore further themes of memory and suburban space."Does Me In" was used in the documentary My Heart Is an Idiot which follows the love life of This American Life contributor Davy Rothbart.Ryan Adams was a vocal fan of the album tweeting: ""Loving the new Frontier Ruckus! Great band...this is what I want to get back to. Those tunes go forever..."The band performed several songs from the record for a Daytrotter session in 2010.This was the first album by Frontier Ruckus to be accompanied by music videos, with a video shot for "Nerves of the Nightmind" in Los Angeles by Michael Fisk and a video for "The Upper Room" shot by David Meiklejohn in Portland, Maine.Way Upstate & the Crippled Summer, pt. 2—an EP of five alternative country songs—was released on the fourth side of the Deadmalls and Nightfalls vinyl package in spring of 2011.. }
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- Deadmalls_and_Nightfalls abstract "Deadmalls and Nightfalls is the second full-length studio album by Frontier Ruckus, released on July 20, 2010 by Ramseur Records. The album received positive reviews. PopMatters stated that the record "not only outdoes its predecessor, it reaches a level of top-notch songwriting most groups never attain on a greatest hits compilation"—calling it a "a musical map to the psyches of its performers."Under the Radar wrote that "Deadmalls and Nightfalls paints pictures, in vivid imagery of American scenery, life, and love, with not a single word misplaced in its poetic grace...an album meant to be combed through and listed to time and again, an album to bask in."The album can be seen as the second installment in a trilogy of personal mythology set in Metro Detroit—bridging The Orion Songbook and Eternity of Dimming. Songs such as "Pontiac, the Nighbrink"—an intensely detailed depiction of Pontiac, Michigan—foreshadowed the zoomed-in specificity with which Eternity would explore further themes of memory and suburban space."Does Me In" was used in the documentary My Heart Is an Idiot which follows the love life of This American Life contributor Davy Rothbart.Ryan Adams was a vocal fan of the album tweeting: ""Loving the new Frontier Ruckus! Great band...this is what I want to get back to. Those tunes go forever..."The band performed several songs from the record for a Daytrotter session in 2010.This was the first album by Frontier Ruckus to be accompanied by music videos, with a video shot for "Nerves of the Nightmind" in Los Angeles by Michael Fisk and a video for "The Upper Room" shot by David Meiklejohn in Portland, Maine.Way Upstate & the Crippled Summer, pt. 2—an EP of five alternative country songs—was released on the fourth side of the Deadmalls and Nightfalls vinyl package in spring of 2011.".