Virtually a
Dan Treacy
solo record,
I Was a Mod Before You Was a Mod
strips away all remaining vestiges of the buoyancy long associated with the
Television Personalities
, leaving behind a harrowing portrait of alienation, desperation and self-loathing;
"A Stranger to Myself,"
"Haunted,"
"Evan Doesn't Ring Me Anymore,"
"A Long Time Gone"
and
"I Can See My Whole World Crashing Down"
are frighteningly bleak and painfully affecting. ~ Jason Ankeny