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| Trophy ScarsHospital Music For the Aesthetics of Language2004 Self-Released 
 Review by: Brian See others by this writer ![[staff]](/images/icons/staffsticker.gif){kind=icon}
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 Published on February 20th 2004
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How they're still unsigned is beyond me. these guys make my life, and insiring they are to me and my past...they are the greatest fucking band ive ever heard..to me they are a mix of the blood brothers and the beatles this band is so fuckin awsome.....its one of my favorit bands ever......great voice, great music...who ever isnt listening to them then your gay... man i love this band.. its so strange, cuz my best friend samantha jones is jerrys(the leadsinger) little sister, and ive actually met him a couple of times... soo definately top score ;) strong band, with fast meaningful lyrics, worth a journey to see. This band is teh fucking roolz. my liking of this band started as passive, i definetly considered them better than most of the other bands in their genre ("whine-core"), but i didnt think much of it. after awhile though i found myself just playing the songs over and over in my head, especially the line "repeat, until we beleive that this is the life that we lead". i kept coming back to this damn e-card that they had. then i finally just bought the fucking album. is this genre overdone? yes. is Trophy Scars really damn good though? yes. Jerry is my lover. yeah, i've seen little nemo in slumberland, that's what i thought of when i saw the song title. you are all crazy. deffently one of the best albums i have ever listened too. they deffently do suck me in like a black hole This score is for your use of the word "alliteration", and the actual alliteration leading up to said word. English teachers rock... (sorry about the errors) wow the singer told me that the song "sleep little nemo - the kidnapping!" was based on a old comic called "Little Nemo in Slumberland". Not the fish movie. this cd is maybe the best cd this year. and despite any comparisons this band doesnt sound like anyone i have ever heard. word. I knew the lead singer in high school, he was such an awesome frail funny hardcore kid. I can hardly go a day without listening to "sleep little nemo", can't wait to see em live. Who else thinks this sounds like This day forward's "In response"? Fell asleep watching 'Finding Nemo' last night. What I saw wasn't bad, but I never thought it would infect a hardcore singer's soul like that. Showed me, I guess. This band takes the softest elements of early-90s screamo, Bright Eyes's half-drunken, melancholic ramblings, the shrieks and "ba da da da"s coming from an unexpected speaker of any Blood Brothers song, and spin them in a fucking blender like they were Julia Child. If you're requesting a genre, post-hardcore seems to be the best fit - but it would be unfair to both the band and the genre. Call it whatever you want, call it collect for all I care - I'm calling it "the art of hype sucking me in like a black hole." after having read the first couple lines of your review, i decided that i dont want to listen to this record, ever. "...only 4 Beatles..." am i the only person who think the beatles are fucking overrated? trophy scars are amazing. and they put on a hell of a show too. This album is realy great. This band has really mastered "the moment." Bands like Tool and Dredg both know when to crescendo and decrescendo, which makes really captivating and engulfing songs. Trophy Scars is no where near the same genre as those bands but they show off the same skill. "Sleep Little Nemo - The Kidnapping" is a great song. They show the skill I mentioned really well on this because they vary the beat a lot so you get incredibly energized and invigorated during the punk beat but then they slow down and get really punchy and cool during the other parts. This is a fucking sweet disc, I heard Mike Patton had a little of something to do with this. This is a relief from some shit that is come out lately, Sleep Little Nemo is a great tune that has been spun many times the past week. Wait, so every track seamlessly flows into "Designed Like Dice (Crickets in Tune)"? A) Jason Tate sucks This band is the new reason I'm still breathing. |
