How people continued to lump them with The Get Up Kids is beyond me. Wood/Water is a mature, thinking album, like Wilco writing acoustic songs for The Smiths.
Swirling, broken ghosts serenading long lost secrets; the gentleness in the callouses of your father’s hands. Volumes of pain, floating through eternity…
This band is simply a group of guys who know how to write good songs. That’s it. No major cultural relevance, no rock’n’roll revolution, just really nice songs.
Sounds like a home recording compared to The Long Walk, but they make the best of it with their dueling guitars, uplifting melodies, and honest enthusiasm.
Sugar – Aloha’s sophomore full-length – doesn’t disappoint. Everything that blew us away the first time is back, smarter and more full-bodied than ever.
Intricate, angularly melodic LOUD rock ala Shiner, Someday I, Jawbox, etc. Strings are bent and drums are smashed; musical fists are thrown and poetry is read.