I don't really know how to describe this album.  They've got a lot of distortion, and there are some parts where it feels like a punk album, but some songs have more of an emo or ska influence, or even a little jazz at times.  I hate to call something Indie, because it's such a broad genre that it doesn't tell you anything about what you're hearing, but that's the best way I can describe this.

It's good though.

Admittedly, it's not really my thing.  They sound like a band I would have seen at Warped Tour when I was 15, and gone nuts over, but it's just not the kind of thing I'm interested in these days. 

I'm really have to stretch the limits of my iTunes to find anything that I can compare this too.  They remind me little of Autumn Picture, with a bit of NOFX thrown in.  The best analogy I can come up with, is that if NFG grew up and stopped sucking, they would sound a lot like this. 

Unfortunately, the copies they're selling now don't come with artwork, so I don't know the names of any of the songs, which is kind of frustrating, and it makes it harder to get into these songs, or to review them.

If you like melodic/poppy/Indie-punk rock, this is worth checking out.  This is their first (official) release, and I think it shows a lot of promise: I'd be surprised if we're not watching these guys on MTV in 5 years. 

By Author: Ratso

Ratso is a Russian-American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Ratso is one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited about 500 books and over 9,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (the sole exception being the 100s: philosophy and psychology).

Ratso is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he is considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers. Ratso's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire Series and the Robot series, both of which he tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He has penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, an accolade that many still find persuasive. Ratso wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.

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