Old 97's Earn Highest Chart Debut Of Their Career For 'Most Messed Up' (ATO)

Congratulations to Old 97's whose "brilliant" (New Yorker) new album 'Most Messed Up' (ATO) debuted this week at #30 on the Billboard 200, in the Top 10 on Billboard's Independent Albums and in the Top 5 Vinyl Albums chart - the highest chart debut of their career.

People Magazine said "there's a timelessness" to 'Most Messed Up' and the album is also earning them some of their best reviews (see below). Old 97's are currently on an extensive national tour, including shows at LA's El Rey on May 9 and NYC's Webster Hall on June 3. Go here for a full list of dates.

Listen to "Nashville" on Soundcloud:

Listen to "Longer Than You've Been Alive" on Soundcloud:

Praise for 'Most Messed Up':

"Airtight songs celebrating life-as-sublime-train-wreck" - Rolling Stone (4 stars)

"A breathless, unrelenting 40 minutes... some of the Old 97's finest and most exhilarating music" - American Songwriter (4 stars)

"Blistered, blasted, and brilliant" - New Yorker

"There's a timelessness to ['Most Messed Up']" - People Magazine

"['Most Messed Up'] shows you don't have to be young and stupid to make great rock 'n' roll'" - Associated Press

"Instant classic.... a killing machine from start to finish" - Salon

"The hardest rockin' set of tunes these guys have offered up since 1999's 'Fight Songs'" - All Music

"A cathartic, punk-rock stomper of a record, and perhaps the first in the band’s catalog to accurately capture their sweatbox live performances." - Paste

"Like a syringe of adrenaline to the chest" - Kansas City Star

"[Rhett Miller is] a master of playing unreliable narrators" - Mother Jones

'Most Messed Up' on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Old-97s/e/B000APZ7M6

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