Anberlin is a fairly new quintet from Orlando, Florida, USA. Their heavy rock is energetic, yet gently as the lead vocals are gentle and there are harmonic vocals as well. Comparisons are easily made. You can hear influences from The Cure and Foo Fighters. If you hear the intro to Change The World, you might think of Stavesacre. The sound is huge anyway. Personal favorites are Change The World, Cold War Transmissions and Cadence. I could write a long review to say the same. I keep it short: For a new and debuting band this is a dream record!
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The Phantom Tollbooth 2003Reviewed by Bert GanglThe natural, and understandable, tendency, when describing any new band is to compare their particular brand of music to that which listeners are most likely to be familiar with. And, to be fair, such an approach does go some distance towards acclimating the uninitiated to Orlando's Anberlin. The start-stop rhythms and alternatingly loud and soft passages of "Change the World" do tread ever so…Similar sounding releases
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