The Hold Steady "Almost Killed Me" Halloween 2024 ranking it as the ninth

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Architects employ a lethal combination of breakdown-heavy guitars

9 of the 10 tracks are written by Rod Argent

The Hold Steady "Almost Killed Me" Halloween 2024 ranking it as the ninthAfter Lifter Puller, the long running indie rock band he fronted, broke up, Craig Finn took his vocal declarations and lyrical twists and started the Hold Steady. He was joined by old bandmate Tad Kubler on lead guitar plus a crew of hard rocking, bar hopping dudes intent on taking the rambling indie rock of Lifter Puller and replacing it with scuffed up AOR and swaggering hard rock. Their 2004 debut album, Almost Killed Me, sounds like the E Street