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WEATHERBOX - American Art
| AbsolutePunk | | As a (faux) reviewer, I have started listening to music differently. My roommates don’t understand it. They will happen upon me listening to something and remark, “That sounds horrible.” I then go into a long-winded speech about how it might not be immediately pleasing, but that the music still has plenty of redeeming qualities. I talk about the chords or the meaning behind some obscure lyric. This usually scatters them pretty quickly, my personal ninja bomb. So, it was nice to hear American Art, the debut full-length from Weatherbox. An immediately likable and catchy release of pop-punk/rock, this album warranted no comment except, “Who is this?”...full text |
| | PunkNews | | Weatherbox got by perfectly on their nearly incredible EP, The Clearing, with a surefire mix of the quirky rock hooks of Criteria and Say Anything. While some Gatsbys American Dream nodding guitar work is seemingly the only aspect added to their musical arsenal here, it's not quite the reason that Weatherbox's finely solid debut full-length is otherwise just a tad disappointing...full text |
| | Silent Urpoar | | With obvious influences like Say Anything... and Saves The Day shining through, there are actually quite a few likeable things about prog rock band Weatherbox's debut LP, American Art. That being said, however this is a difficult album to get a hold of. Lead singer Brian Warren's Bemis-like mixture of mediocre singing and yelling are a bit grating at times, which brings what might be an otherwise enjoyable album down. The music is strong pretty much throughout, but the musical influences (Kaddisfly, for instance) don't always seem to match Warren's vocals. When its all over, I wouldn't say that American Art is a bad album; its just not for me....full text |
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