Susan Frances
11/20/08, 05:08 PM
This Condition - We Don’t Have To Be Alone
Record Label: Unsigned
Release Date: November 18, 2008
This Condition have returned with their latest EP, We Don’t Have To Be Alone, the follow up to their 2007 disc, Find It In You. Produced by Anthony Santanocito, We Don’t Have To Be Alone has a prom night feel relatable to Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and a pop punk palette reflective of Houston Calls. Engineering a mix of acoustically jeweled rock, softcore punk, and lively rustles planked by glam-rock riffs, This Condition has a tamed wildness that wraps their punk rock flakes in melodic trimmings and frame their acoustic vessels in power rock boosters, invigorating quakes, and heart-shaped arcs. This Condition’s new disc offers alot to like about this band’s music and keeps power rock-fringed tunage a contender in the world market.
The band’s rapport is attractive racking up punk-inspired rivets and limbs of frilly guitar licks from Mike McGovern and Anthony Giambalvo along “The Timing” and “Some Nights Just Feel Right” lotioned by leader singer Nate Cyphert’s sinewy vocal hooks. Cyphert shows a champion attitude asserting that life cannot beat you down unless you let it in the song “Barefoot” when he insists, “Nothing is going to change unless we let it happen.” The song has a sing-along vibe reminiscent of The Kooks. This Condition hits their stride when they coalesce acoustic schemes with power rock flecks through “Red Letter,” and when their glam-rock voltage through “I’m No Hero” is thimbled by slow throbbing rhythms from drummer Steve Keyes and bassist Nick Cantatore.
This Condition’s new disc can be classified alongside The Kooks showing a penchant to relate to real life, and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in its reels of engaging power rock riffs. The band skates through these tracks as if the songs are flowing in their blood. The songs and the band are such a perfect fit for each other that no gimmicks are required.
Maine (because PSHH said so), The Kooks, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Houston Calls
www.myspace.com/thiscondition (http://www.myspace.com/thiscondition)
Record Label: Unsigned
Release Date: November 18, 2008
This Condition have returned with their latest EP, We Don’t Have To Be Alone, the follow up to their 2007 disc, Find It In You. Produced by Anthony Santanocito, We Don’t Have To Be Alone has a prom night feel relatable to Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and a pop punk palette reflective of Houston Calls. Engineering a mix of acoustically jeweled rock, softcore punk, and lively rustles planked by glam-rock riffs, This Condition has a tamed wildness that wraps their punk rock flakes in melodic trimmings and frame their acoustic vessels in power rock boosters, invigorating quakes, and heart-shaped arcs. This Condition’s new disc offers alot to like about this band’s music and keeps power rock-fringed tunage a contender in the world market.
The band’s rapport is attractive racking up punk-inspired rivets and limbs of frilly guitar licks from Mike McGovern and Anthony Giambalvo along “The Timing” and “Some Nights Just Feel Right” lotioned by leader singer Nate Cyphert’s sinewy vocal hooks. Cyphert shows a champion attitude asserting that life cannot beat you down unless you let it in the song “Barefoot” when he insists, “Nothing is going to change unless we let it happen.” The song has a sing-along vibe reminiscent of The Kooks. This Condition hits their stride when they coalesce acoustic schemes with power rock flecks through “Red Letter,” and when their glam-rock voltage through “I’m No Hero” is thimbled by slow throbbing rhythms from drummer Steve Keyes and bassist Nick Cantatore.
This Condition’s new disc can be classified alongside The Kooks showing a penchant to relate to real life, and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in its reels of engaging power rock riffs. The band skates through these tracks as if the songs are flowing in their blood. The songs and the band are such a perfect fit for each other that no gimmicks are required.
Maine (because PSHH said so), The Kooks, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Houston Calls
www.myspace.com/thiscondition (http://www.myspace.com/thiscondition)