Emo. This albums is pretty much what you'd expect from a good emo band. Standard emo vocals and the guitars stay away from holding out emo chords in favor of more melodic guitar lines. The songs are decent. The tempo ranges from slow to mid tempo to some that are more upbeat. The more upbeat ones interested me more (I'm not one for slow stuff). Musically it's all there. Nothing bad to say really. Something I find interesting is their production of the vocals. In some of the songs the vocals sound like they were recorded in a hall of some kind. The vocals lose some definition while gaining a certain ambiance. I personally would have liked more defined vocals, but I can see what they were trying to get at. In all this is a decent album that you'd might want to check out if you're into the whole emo thing.
B-
Other coverage for this album
Decapolis 2000Reviewed by Tom BastianElliott's first full length, "U.S. Songs" is one of my favorite releases in this "emo" genre. This EP on the other hand is kind of weird. In that I mean it doesn't really seem to flow. Some of these songs were recorded back in 1996 while the other songs were recorded in 1999. In the first two songs frontman Chris Higdon's vocals seem to be covered up. He has a great voice but the production just…Similar sounding releases
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