Posted by damnitsderek on 2009-11-02 21:42:23
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I just got this today, and am currently being blown away by it.

winwinwinwinwinwin.

Posted by thornsoflife on 2009-08-23 22:12:22
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this is up with shook ones for album of the year, hell maybe even number 1

Posted by xshoutoutx on 2009-07-19 09:58:02
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This record definitely let me down. After the 'I Know What A Lion Is' demo came out, I could not wait to see what this band could do, but I felt Summer Fences just kind of never picked up and really went anywhere. 90's emo revival is what pop-punk was to 2008, between these guys and bands like algernon, we're gonna be seeing a lot of Kinsella-esque bands popping up. Complaining aside, it was definitely a good release, just kind of left me unfulfilled in the end.

didnt mean to be a douche... wasnt a good day for me.. sorrry. hahaha

To Blackjaw: Yeah I realised that isn't the band. I read the review and checked the myspace out and was expecting a sound described in the review and all I heard was shitty metal :P I found out soon enough that there were two bands caled Castevet

Also, Blackjaw, I know I owe you a list, but I Am The Thief was my ace in the hole. Nothing else I could name would measure up, and it would be a very short list considering this site and random friend requests are the only way I hear about new bands. By the way, did you and Mike see the videos I shot of new Daylight songs they played live?

Posted by icapped2pac on 2009-07-12 17:24:37
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I almost agree with Mike, just a half star lower. I think it's great, but they're obviously capable of having a 5-star album in them. Oh and I thought the review was fine, and would work whether or not you were already familiar with their music.

I have no problem with criticism, I just find it weird that I am getting shit from a musician about being stoked on a band. Everyone has ears and access to myspace, so reviews are essentially pointless so I did my job I could do: describe who they sound like and their approach. I find this to be one of the best albums of this genre I have ever heard. This band didn't go out of their way to send me their stuff, I just found it and wanted to spread the word. Praise isn't bad when it's deserved and it definitely is here.

horrible review. sucking the tite of the band while cradling there balls. Its a great album don't get me wrong, but to go as far as praise it in a review is pathetic. no mentions of a mellow sound like explosions in the sky? or how the vocals contribute to the beard rock feeeel

Thanks for the feedback. I don't now if you've ever heard American Football, but they're well... uh, mellow. So I figured that along with "relaxed instrumental feel" that I got that point across. Also, what's wrong with praising a band? If you gave an album a close to .5 away from a perfect score, do you not expect it to be somewhat "cradling."

I feel your points are highly invalid, nit picky, and just plain stupid.

Posted by Blackjaw_x on 2009-07-11 16:53:56
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And to make sure, Slacker, you do know that's not the right one, right? :P

Oh and Kram1234, if you weren't in Calculator I'd... you know what, what you said makes me not want to like Calculator anymore. Just because you'd review it differently, namedropping a band like that because they're "mellow" (I really don't see how either band is best described as mellow) and saying the vocals "contribute to the beard rock feeeel", doesn't mean this review is bad. Like I would have added something about the genius illusion of simplicity and repetition that makes Castevet much more pleasing to the ear than all the emo-revival bands that just masturbate over their guitars, possessing technical ability but ultimately coming up with a nearly unlistenable sound. But just because I'd say that and Mike didn't doesn't mean his review is bad. Well he did basically say both what I just said and what you said, but in his own way that works just as well. He also did very little "tite sucking" or "ball cradling", there was more than enough objective evidence mentioned in this review to defend the 4.5 star rating. I'd like to see your review.

Hah! I decided to check this band out and stumbled upon this http://www.myspace.com/castevet and thought this is real shitty.

horrible review. sucking the tite of the band while cradling there balls. Its a great album don't get me wrong, but to go as far as praise it in a review is pathetic. no mentions of a mellow sound like explosions in the sky? or how the vocals contribute to the beard rock feeeel

Posted by ChuckieFinster on 2009-07-11 06:29:37
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This is seriously some of the best new music I've heard in years. Already a classic.

This record really is great.

Oh and I just downloaded this on emusic. Can't wait to listen to it.

It makes perfect sense to me for there to be a lot of 4 star albums on this website. Why? Because this is a website about punk music. The people here love this type of music, and they're going to disproportionately review the albums they love. Those 2 reasons stack on top of each other. No one should be surprised when a bunch of people review an album they love and give it 4/5 stars.

Posted by Blackjaw_x on 2009-07-10 17:39:46
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I always think reviews are actually given less stars than they should. Brian's thing is to give 3.5 when the review talks about the album being good, and 3 stars if it's okay, and that's it. If an album's good I would want to give it 4 or more, because with the hundreds of thousands of albums out there, only about a thousand are good, so they need to be put in the highest percentage of scores. Unless they're being scored solely against other good albums, then there would be some 2 stars in there. But that's not the case on here because no good albums have been given 2 stars, because no one would understand that 2 stars vs. HWM's 5 stars means that 2 star album is probably awesome still. I just hate the score parts of reviews, the system will never work. I would rather read the review and figure it out myself. Or if the system's out of 100 then that would work okay, like my top 10 albums of all time can all be over 95 but you still see that some of those are better than the others (99 vs. 96, etc).

Anyway, this is beginning to look like a paragraph and TrueBeliever could be nearby.

stfu

Posted by bryne on 2009-07-10 16:36:22
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Hey Mike, this review needs moar Polar Bear Club references.

Hey Bryne, gtfo.

Posted by bryne on 2009-07-10 16:23:47
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People around here put too much weight into how many (or how few) stars an album gets.

Oh yeah, this album rules by the way.

givemeamuseum: I've seen them (they play a decent amount of shows in Chicago). They're awesome live.

not bad at all. i do wish it was heavier at times.

Posted by Blackjaw_x on 2009-07-10 15:33:14
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I've seen live videos and they seemed damn near flawless to me.

Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2009-07-10 15:27:10
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Yeah, I'll definently look forward to what they'll do next. Has anyone seen 'em? Are they as good as they should be?

Posted by plagues on 2009-07-10 14:54:56
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Seems like there has been quite a "revival" of the 90s emo scene lately. I'm stoked.

ps. Mike, I was wondering when you were going to put up a review.

Que?

Posted by acris on 2009-07-10 14:45:31
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Real good. Super cool guys as well.

ps. Mike, I was wondering when you were going to put up a review.

Checked this out, like it. I wish it had better dynamics, music of this kind definently relies on that. It'll probably grow to a 7.5 soon though.

I definitely had that problem when I first heard american football. I feel that, since you can't write 7 minute long indie jams for your whole life, that they'll become more dynamic/shorter in the future. I am excited for what they can do.

Posted by Blackjaw_x on 2009-07-10 12:55:21
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Revenge, it would help if you didn't steal it, and got the cd so you could hear it in its best potential quality. Oh and I'm sure the band members appreciate you openly ripping them off in their review comments.

And 24hr, is it necessary to put that half a star rating in your irrelevant comment? Now the User Rating will be skewed, and... ugh.

Posted by danperrone on 2009-07-10 11:54:32
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album of the year!!!

"I just find it funny that you've started talking about FOTL now even though they've been a band for years now."

ive talked about them before but, i started talking about them a lot lately because they just came out with (what i feel is) the best album of the past 5 years.

On Topic:
.............. i got nothing. sorry.

Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2009-07-10 11:38:22
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I just find it funny that you've started talking about FOTL now even though they've been a band for years now.

On topic: Checked this out, like it. I wish it had better dynamics, music of this kind definently relies on that. It'll probably grow to a 7.5 soon though.

its alright. Its not like its Future of the Left or anything
..........
i need to stop that

I usually get tired of the "guy shouting across the room to get his friend's attention" vocals pretty quickly. Latterman had zero staying power, though I do like them.

I don't know exactly what you mean, but if you're referring to the mix, it sounds nothing like Latterman. The vocals themselves are more intense.

Stealing this now to see if it's any good.

I usually get tired of the "guy shouting across the room to get his friend's attention" vocals pretty quickly. Latterman had zero staying power, though I do like them.

Posted by 24hourpriapism on 2009-07-10 08:32:21
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dude, we get it. you like polar bear club. jeez.

Posted by Blackjaw_X on 2009-07-10 02:22:08
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I'll post outside of the beta so my score can show up and boost that "user rating". And yes, I meant to put 5 stars.

Album of the year.