Gatsby's American Dream - (2003) Ribbons and Sugar

sound: Indie/Punk
length: 11 songs, 30.1 minutes
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1. The Taming
2. We're Not Orphans
3. Epilogue
4. A Work Lies Sex Love Fear Hate Friendship
5. Manifesto of Tangible Wealth
6. Snicker at the Swine
7. Apparition
8. Cut the Strings
9. Horse You Rode in On
10. Recondition, Reprogram, Reactivate
11. Counterfeit Language

First they had the good sense to take their name from (in my opinion) one of the greatest novels of American Literature. Secondly they had the nerve to write songs using drowning in the great "human manifesto" and lyrical content becoming of an intellect and not a 5th grader. Then they had to go and be a bunch of talented musicians and a group of guys who genuinely love music?
Here is an album that never falls into the cliche of sounding like one giant 30 minute song, and a band that never ceased to switch it up on their fans. Damn entertaining, solid West Egg material.

sounds like: Further Seems Forever, Silversun Pickups, Refused

Woosh.

The Thermals - (2006) The Body, The Blood, The Machine

sound: Indie/Punk
length: 10 songs, 35.47 minutes
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1. "Here's Your Future" – 2:28
2. "I Might Need You to Kill" – 2:27
3. "An Ear for Baby" – 3:36
4. "A Pillar of Salt" – 2:57
5. "Returning to the Fold" – 2:39
6. "Test Pattern" – 3:27
7. "St. Rosa and the Swallows" – 3:34
8. "Back to the Sea" – 4:47
9. "Power Doesn't Run on Nothing" – 5:14
10. "I Hold the Sound" – 4:38

I thought this guys voice was the most fucking annoying sound in the world when i first heard this record.
I was wrong. It's good, so listen to it, or don't.
I don't really give a shit.

sounds like: Refused, Cheeky, Failing Winter

Blip.