Make It Be

Make It Be is the first collaborative studio album by American musicians R. Stevie Moore and 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] garage rock psychedelic rock
Length	52:52
R. Stevie Moore chronology
Herald, Goods (2014) Make It Be (2015) Nobody Pays Me Much Mind Until I'm Gone (2016)
Jason Falkner chronology
All Quiet on the Noise Floor (2009) Make It Be (2015)

The album consists of newly written material along with rerecordings of a few of Moore's 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