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Monday, January 01, 2007
Album reviews

Here's a growing catalogue of our album reviews since 2006. Wanna to write for this website? Send in one of yours and we'll gladly post it up.

Sakes Alive!! "Act II"
The Taxpayers "A Rhythm In The Cages"
Brightwood "Wake"
Idiot Pilot "Wolves"
Jet Lag Gemini "Fire The Cannons"

Albums featured in e-zine issue #3 [Download the e-zine]
Alesana - "On Frail Wings and Vanity"
Amber Pacific - "Truth In Sincerity"
Arctic Monkeys - "Favourite Worst Nightmare"
Before Their Eyes - "Before Their Eyes"
Brighten - "King Vs Queen"
Chasing Victory - "Fiends"
DJ Tommie Sunshine - "Ultra Rock Remixed"
Firescape - "Dancehall Apocalypse"
Funeral For A Friend - "Tales Don't Tell Themselves"
Linkin Park - "Minutes to Midnight"
Marilyn Manson - "Eat Me, Drink Me"
My American Heart - "Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather"
Nine Inch Nails - "Year Zero"
Paramore - "Riot!"
Perry Farrell's Satellite Party - "Ultra Payloaded"
Straylight Run - "The Needles The Space"
Sullivan - "Cover Your Eyes"
Tim Armstrong - "A Poet's Life"
The Confession - "The Requiem"
The Dear and Departed - "Something Quite Peculiar"
The Fold - "Secrets Keep You Sick"
The Selfish Gene - "The Grand Masquerade"
The Spill Canvas - "Denial Feels So Good"
The Used - "Lies For Liars"
V/A “- "Punk Goes Acoustic 2"
V/A - "Take Action Vol. 6"
V/A - "Warped Tour 2007 Compilation"

Albums featured in e-zine issue #2 [Download the e-zine]
Anberlin - "Cities"
Blinded Black - "Under The Sunrise"
Chevelle - "Vena Sera"
Damiera - "M(US)ic"
Daphne Loves Derby - "Good Night, Witness Light"
Enter Shikari - "Take To The Skies"
Good Charlotte - "Good Morning, Revival"
Hot Rod Circuit - "The Underground Is A Dying Breed"
Lovedrug - "Everything Starts Where it Ends"
Maylene And The Sons of Disaster - "II"
Mêlée - "Devils and Angels"
Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank"
New Atlantic - "The Streets, The Sounds and The Love"
Sherwood - "A Different Light"
The Academy Is... - "S.A.N.T.I."
The Almost - "Southern Weather"
The Chariot - "The Fiancee"
The Graduate - "Anhedonia"
The Higher - "On Fire"
Tyler Read - "Only Rock And Roll Can Save Us"
William Tell - "You Can Hold Me Down"
Zolof The Rock & Roll Destroyer/Reel Big Fish - "Duet All Night Long" EP

Albums featured in e-zine issue #1 [Download the e-zine]
A Day To Remember - "For Those Who Have Heart"
Alkaline Trio - "Remains"
Bayside - "The Walking Wounded"
Beneath The Sky - "What Demons Do To Saints"
Dustin Kensrue - "Please Come Home"
Fall Out Boy - "Infinity on High"
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Transparent Things"
Lifetime - s/t
Permanent Me - "After The Room Clears"
Relient K - "Five Score and Seven Years Ago"
Self Against City - "Telling Secrets To Strangers"
Small Leaks Sink Ships - "Until The World Is Happy; Wake Up You Sleepyhead Sun"
The Black Lips - "Los Valietes Del Mundo Nuevo"
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - s/t
The North Atlantic - "Wires In The Walls"
The Shins - "Wincing The Night Away"
Various Artists - "The O.C. Mix 6: Covering Our Tracks"

Previous reviews posted on the site:
[yes you are allowed to laugh at our shitty reviews back then, haha.]

Taking Back Sunday - "Louder Now"
The Dresden Dolls - "Yes Virginia"
Angels and Airwaves - "We Don't Need To Whisper"
Zero 7 - "The Garden"
V/A - "Punk Goes 90s"
Malicious Damange - "Fallen Kingdom"
Lostprophets - "Liberation Transmission"
Underoath - "Define The Great Line"
Rise Against - "The Sufferer and The Witness"
As Fast As - "Open Letter To The Damned"
Monty Are I - "Wall Of People"
Ian Erix - "For Conformity"
Vaux- "Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice"
Stone Sour - "Come What(ever) May"
Meg And Dia - "Something Real"
Breaking Benjamin - "Phobia"
Celebrity - "Mining For Twilight"
A Change Of Pace - "Prepare The Masses"
Jet Lag Gemini - "Business"
G Love - "Lemonade"
Papa Roach - "The Paramour Sessions"
Mewithoutyou - "Brother, sister"
A Static Lullaby - s/t
Cobra Starship - "While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets"
The Receivers - "Decades"
Saosin - s/t
Jet - Shine On
Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots
Stars of Track and Field - "Centuries Before Love And War"
The Changes - "Today Is Tonight"
Can Joann - "Hurt People Hurt People"
Casket Salesmen - "Sleeping Giants"
Incubus - "Light Grenades"
The Feeling "Four Stops And Home" EP
Brett Dennen "So Much More"
The Oohlas "Best Stop Pop"
Foo Fighters - "Skin and Bones"
Memphis - "A Little Place In The Wilderness"
Green River Ordinance "The Beauty Of Letting Go"

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