One might attempt lumping MDID with The Strokes and Interpol as wunderkinds offering dated-yet-fresh approaches to post-punk. Though Mark Edwards drives a '96 Saturn with similar horsepower as the aforementioned's rides, he's been renting company cars from Factory Records since '84. On MDID's eleventh (judging by AMG's vehicle history) release, Edwards once again turns on the radio and tests the transmission. "All We Want" downshifts Ian Curtis' spoken-not-sung vocalisms with fluid contemplativeness. "Stories Left Untold" is Mission Of Burma in fourth gear while Edwards strips an honest admission ("What I've learned/After forty years of living/Is I've got a lot to learn"). "Physical Fitness" wonders if the loaner from Hertz has "the right equipment." Like autos serviced by Jiffy Lube, MDID is a well-oiled machine.
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