Make It Be

Make It Be is the first collaborative studio album by American musicians R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner, self-released on January 10, 2015.[3] The album was recorded in November 2012. On March 10, 2017, it was reissued through Bar/None Records and was met with generally favorable reviews.[4]

Make It Be
2017 cover. Illustration by Stephen Kalinich
Studio album by R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner
Released	January 18, 2015 (2015-01-18)
Recorded	November 2012
Studio	Falkner's studio, Hollywood, CA
Genre	Lo-fi[1] power pop[2] alternative rock[2]
Length	52:52
R. Stevie Moore chronology
Herald, Goods (2014) Make It Be (2015) Nobody Pays Me Much Mind Until I'm Gone (2016)

The album consists of newly written material along with rerecordings of a few Moore songs.[5] Its reissue added one more track, "Horror Show", written by Falkner.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	79/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Guardian	[1]
PopMatters	[6]
The Wire	[7]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, Make It Be received an average score of 79 based on 10 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4] The Guardian's Gwilym Mumford wrote; "A certain tolerance for Moore’s loopier sound experiments and slam poetry skits may be required here, but for the most part this is an appealing mix of strangeness and sheen."[1] Tim Sendra of AllMusic reviewed that the "record is packed with really fun, great-sounding songs and moments where the guys sound like they're having a blast working together.[2] PopMatters' Jeff Beaudoin deemed the album "a fine, fine record that deserves to be heard now and well into the distant future."[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I H8 Ppl"	R. Stevie Moore	3:51
2.	"Another Day Slips Away"	Moore Roger Ferguson	4:30
3.	"I Love Us, We Love Me"	Moore	3:52
4.	"Gower (Theme From A Scene)"	Moore Jason Falkner	1:39
5.	"Prohibited Permissions"	Moore	0:31
6.	"Stamps"	Moore	2:30
7.	"Guitar Interplé"	Moore Falkner	1:30
8.	"Sincero Amore"	Moore Falkner	3:20
9.	"Don't You Just Know It"	Huey Piano Smith Johnny Vincent	3:42
10.	"If You See Kay / Run For Your Lives!"	Moore Falkner	3:50
11.	"Guitar Interplay Dos"	Moore Falkner	2:45
12.	"That's Fine, What Time?"	Moore Falkner	4:03
13.	"Play Myself Some Music"	Moore	3:41
14.	"Passed Away Today"	Moore Falkner	5:41
15.	"Album Drop"	Moore	1:15
16.	"I Am The Best For You"	Moore	4:49
17.	"Falkner Walk"	Moore	0:57
Total length:			52:52

References

1. Mumford, Gwilym (April 13, 2017). "R Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner: Make It Be review – loopy lo-fi intrigue". The Guardian.
2. Sendra, Tim. "Make It Be". AllMusic. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
3. Moore, R. Stevie. "Make It Be [ltd ed]". Bandcamp. Archived from the original on April 7, 2015.
4. "Make It Be". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved November 3, 2017.
5. DeVille, Chris (March 3, 2017). "Stream R. Stevie Moore & Jason Falkner Make It Be". Stereogum.
6. Beaudoin, Jeff (March 29, 2017). "R. Stevie Moore and Jason Falkner: Make It Be". PopMatters.
7. "Make It Be". The Wire. March 2017. p. 50.

External links

• Make It Be page on R. Stevie Moore's website
• Make It Be on Bandcamp