Nothing To Prove - Overproof Soundsystem

Advantages: Uplifting, full of fun, vocally excellent, instrumentally striking.
Disadvantages: The 5 minute spoken outro is incredibly unnecessary.

...'Nothing to Prove' is the long awaited fifth studio album from the American hardcore punk band that is H2O. There was a seven year gap between the release of fourth album 'Go' and this 2008 Bridge Nine released record that is 'Nothing to Prove'; the name of the album makes the bands opinion very clear that they have nothing to prove to anyone here, the band has been together since 1995 now and has over the years more than proved its worth as an excellent hardcore punk band. The album consists of 10 tracks and this therefore provides for 29 minutes of music. A number of excellent guest vocalists feature here such as Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba, Gorilla Biscuits main man Anthony Civarelli, and Agnostic Front's vocalist Roger Miret also amongst others; it's great to hear the guest contributions here and always the bands music has much... Read review

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Advantages: Quality throughout
Disadvantages: Leaves you wanting more

...LCD Soundsystem's main man is James Murphy who is the creative and conceptual force behind LCD Soundsystem but he also has a collective of friends/session musicians who help create his music. James Murphy is also the co-owner of LCD Soundsystems label (DFA, with his partner being Tim Goldsworthy) Another fact that may surprise you is this very British sounding sound of LCD Soundsystem is created by an American. Sound of Silver is the follow up album to the debut album called LCD Soundsystem. The debut was and is a phenomenal album and having that as the standard would be enough to create pressure on the follow up which will inevitably be compared to the ground breaking debut. The biggest compliment I can pay is Sound of Silver surpasses the debut and also progresses the 'LCD' sound, apparently termed punk funk The album is made up... Read review

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Advantages: Completely original
Disadvantages: None in my opinion

...Finaly an album and band that has brought undergorund electro/house music steaming back into public conciousness, for all of you who thought dance music was dead, think again. Little did you know the dirty dance music torch has been burning deep underground kept alight by the dedicated cheek chewing ravers in clubs accross the country, theyre little secret since the commercial superclubs like cream and home shut down in the late 90's. well now the secrets out, Lcd soundsystems rare blend of hard and heavy beats mixed with memorable melodys and lyrics is enough to keep both weathered house heads and more commercial minded folk satisfied at the same time, a very tricky feat indeed! Onstage The bands lineup is: Pat Mahoney (drums); Nancy Whang (keyboards, vocals); Tyler Pope (bass), Phil Mossman (guitar, percussion, keys, bass... Read review

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