Yellowcard: Lights and Sounds
CML call number: CD/POPULAR/Yellowcard
Artist website: http://www.yellowcardrock.com/
Chuck Arnold wrote in People, 2/6/06: "From Green Day to Fall Out Boy and the All-American Rejects, punk-pop bands are on a real roll. Yellowcard keeps the pogo power going on this rewarding follow-up to the quartet's platinum major-label debut, 2003's Ocean Avenue. While the deceptively upbeat 'Down on My Head,' with its bouncy hooks and pangs of alienation, is the kind of adolescent anthem you might expect from the group, Yellowcard largely eschews the bratty whininess typical of the genre in favor of a more mature, multilayered sound that makes greater use of resident violinist Sean Mackin and his lush string arrangements. The brightest moments on Lights and Sounds are ballads like 'City of Devils' and 'How I Go,' which reveal more emotional depth. Best is 'Two Weeks from Twenty,' a fictional account of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq just shy of turning 20. Moody and moving, with a jazzy horn part and Beach Boys harmonies, it shows Yellowcard has really come of age."
Artist website: http://www.yellowcardrock.com/
Chuck Arnold wrote in People, 2/6/06: "From Green Day to Fall Out Boy and the All-American Rejects, punk-pop bands are on a real roll. Yellowcard keeps the pogo power going on this rewarding follow-up to the quartet's platinum major-label debut, 2003's Ocean Avenue. While the deceptively upbeat 'Down on My Head,' with its bouncy hooks and pangs of alienation, is the kind of adolescent anthem you might expect from the group, Yellowcard largely eschews the bratty whininess typical of the genre in favor of a more mature, multilayered sound that makes greater use of resident violinist Sean Mackin and his lush string arrangements. The brightest moments on Lights and Sounds are ballads like 'City of Devils' and 'How I Go,' which reveal more emotional depth. Best is 'Two Weeks from Twenty,' a fictional account of a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq just shy of turning 20. Moody and moving, with a jazzy horn part and Beach Boys harmonies, it shows Yellowcard has really come of age."
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