Seachange - On Fire, With Love

Genre: Indie Rock
Release Date: 10/16/2006
Sounds Like: Oceansize, And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Interpol
Overall Rating: 6.0




Summary: Seachange are a six piece indie rock band hailing from Nottingham, England. On Fire, With Love is an interesting album and a slight departure from their first album, Lay of the Land. Where Lay of the Land relied more on noise, this album offers more melody with lush bursts of amped up guitar. Lyrically the songs are about life, love and disappointment. All in all I find this to be a pretty good album. Click here to hear a track.

Ratings Summary:

Originality within Genre: 5.7
Originality by Band: 7.5
Production: 7.0
Did I like it?: 5.8

Track Ratings:

1) 6.4
2) 6.5
3) 6.8
4) 4.0
5) 7.1
6) 5.0
7) 7.2
8) 6.1
9) 5.1
10) 4.0
11) 4.5

Ladyhawk - Ladyhawk (06/06/2006)

Genre: Indie Rock
Sounds Like: Dinosaur Jr., Silkworm, Pavement, Neil Young.
Overall Rating: 6.2/10

Summary: Canadien rock quartet Ladyhawk play straight bare bones guitar rock. Their influences are obvious. Singer/guitarist Duffy Dreidiger delivers on both ends with fantastic string work and emotive vocals. Despite a few weak tracks this is a good album overall. Click here to hear a track from the album.

Rating Details:

Originality in Genre: 5.5
Originality of Band: 5.5
Production: 7.5
Did I like it?: 7.2

Track Ratings:
1) 4.1
2) 8.5
3) 7.2
4) 8.1
5) 6.0
6) 5.5
7) 5.1
8) 5.9
9) 7.9
10) 5.6

Fighting for Alaska - Fighting for Alaska Ep (04/2006)

Genre- Indie Pop

Overall Rating: 5.3/10

Summary- This is the second EP from Perth, Australia’s Fighting for Alaska. This is a catchy female fronted pop album that reminds me a bit of Rainer Maria. The songs are well crafted emotive pop tunes with catchy hooks and smart phrasing. Meike Scantlebury’s voice has a hushed vulnerability that carries a surprising underlying strength. Overall this is an average album. Click here to listen to a song.

Rating Breakdown:

Originality in Genre: 4.0
Originality by Band: 5.0
Production: 7.0
Did I like it?: 4.0

Track Ratings:
1) 6.0
2) 6.6
3) 7.0
4) 5.2
5) 5.4

Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist (10/31/2006)

Genre: Rock, Metal, Alternative, Post Grunge

Overall Rating: 5.7/10

Summary: This is the 5th full length album by the Deftones. The album is a return to the White Pony era featuring melodic washes of orchestration over gnarling guitars and Chino Moreno's Hush-Scream vocals. Though this album fails to capture the brilliance of White Pony it far exceeds their self-titled previous effort. I rate this album slightly better than average. Click here to listen to a track.

Rating Breakdown:

Originality within Genre- 5.8

Orginality by Band- 7.2

Production/Sound- 7

Did I like it- 5.8

Track Ratings:

1) 6.0

2) 4.0

3) 6.1

4) 6.0

5) 6.7

6) 5.2

7) 6.0

8) 3.0

9) 4.0

10) 4.8

11) 5.8

12) 5.5

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