Kensington Heights by The Constantines

Kensington Heights is the Constantines' fourth full-length album, the follow-up to Tournament of Hearts, and it came out on Arts & Crafts, landing in Canada two weeks before it reached American stores. Jeff McMurrich produced and mixed it and Noah Mintz handled the mastering, and the result is indie rock with its sleeves rolled up, built to be shouted back from a sweaty club floor.

"Hard Feelings" went out first as the lead single. Listen closely to "Do What You Can Do" and you'll catch a nod to, of all people, the organist Diane Bish, a neat reminder that this band's reference points ran wider than its bar-band bluster lets on.

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