Most of the members of this band have a background in hardcore- and metal-bands.
The founder and leader of the band, Brett Detar, played in ZAO for a while, for
instance� So when I first heard about this band I expected a �hard� sound.
How wrong I was !! This band is all about pure emotional rock-music in the vein
of Hot Water Music, The Get-Up-Kids, Fugazi and so on� EMO is one of the
hype�s in the music scene the past few years and this band really sets the
standard in this style. I dare to say that the musicians in TJT have more
technical skills than the bands mentioned above and besides that, they have more
variety in their songs as well. They�re really punk-pop-style in some songs,
but the difficult guitar-parts really set them apart from this style. The whole
album is really bombastic, melodical, groovy and very well-played and
well-produced. Another word that fits this band is �mystery�. The lyrics,
the booklet and the whole atmosphere are really poetic and artificial. Maybe
that�s the reason why I can�t get enough of this band and this album.
Lyrically most of the songs seem to be poetical love-songs. Pure musical emotion
just the way I like it and certainly another awesome Tooth & Nail-band with
the skills to become one of the leading emo-/rock-bands in the next century !!!
My favorite song is �Constellation�, which takes almost 7 minutes and has a
powerful guitar-riff, exploding in the middle of the song and repeating on and
on and on� Tears in my eyes !!
Karel