Maroon

Maroon is the second studio album by American band the Webb Brothers, released through Atlantic Records on June 1, 2000. It was produced by Stephen Street. The singles "Summer People" and "I Can't Believe You're Gone" reached numbers 115 and 69 respectively in the UK, while the album reached number 105 on the UK Albums Chart. Critical reception Writing for AllMusic, Daniel Browne commented that the album is "full of soaring choruses and orchestral backdrops that might as well have been inspired by Tunesmith, Webb the Elder's giant treatise on the art of song", judging their "subject matter" to be "the lifestyle of carefree (and careless) swingers, and they capture it in spare, acidic lyrics that are almost the opposite of their father's grandiloquence". Browne acclaimed the album's "eclecticism, along with the jaded, wasted character of the lyrics", comparing it to Rufus Wainwright's Poses (2001), "another breakthrough album by a second-generation songwriter". Keith Phipps of The A.V. Club felt that while the Webb Brothers' "perspective remains dour throughout" the album, it "comes cloaked in songs so instantly ingratiating that it's not hard to overlook the sadness just below the surface", opining that Maroon "captures a band with no shortage of methods for converting misery into melody". Phipps also complimented Stephen Street's "crisp production [that] gives the Webbs a solid base for their ambitious, eclectic songwriting".