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The Moon Is Down (2001 Tooth and Nail)
BAND: Joshua Colbert (guitar) - Nick Dominguez (guitar) - Chad Neptune (bass) - Steve Kleisath (percussion) - Chris Carrabba (vocals)
TRACKLIST: the moon is down - the bradley - snowbirds and townies - monachetti - madison prep - new year's project - just until sundown - pictures of shorelines - wearing thin - a new desert life
REVIEW:
Another excellent album of 2001, The Moon is Down adds yet another incredible album to Tooth and Nail's catalog. Further Seems Forever, hailing from Pompano Beach, FL, was born of memembers of Strongarm, Shai-Hulud and Vacant Andy's, all of which are unlikely candidates to produce the music that they do. I guess it's the same old story of hardcore moving onto something more artistic, just like what happened with the DC hardcore scene back in the 80's. The Moon is Down proved to be a long winded effort for the band, with producer James Paul Wisner pushing them to their creative limits on this record. But the end result is a record that I think will stand the test of time. The song structures are like nothing else you hear these days, and are nothing like the rest of their Florida commrades (such as New Found Glory). This is album throws 4/4 time signatures out the window and makes for something that you won't be able to tap your fingers along with. Of course, when you're drummer takes on a lot of the song writing, what else can you expect except very original beats. In fact, most of the songs sound like they were just written around the drumming... which is phenomenal if you haven't gotten my drift by now, haha. However the guitar and bass parts are equally as ground breaking as the drumming. These are the kind of songs that you would have no idea how to play unless you had tablature for them, but even then you wouldn't get it right. Now, musically, these songs would stand on their own no problem and be very listenable, but then you get the powerhouse vocals of the infamous Chris Carrabba. Now any Dashboard Confessional fan can tell you how amazing Chris is, but you haven't heard shit until you listen to this album. This is the real deal, before he strapped on the acoustic and sapped it up with whiny teenage love songs. The lyrics themselves are brilliant enough to be published by themselves as a book of poetry, but they even further amplify the beauty of these songs. And without the vocals, you might just get lost in the music because it can be very hard to listen to without the vocals paving the way. As an added bonus, the album plays as a concept album with the whole airport theme. All in all, it plays very well together, putting together a completely unique experience when you pop it into your cd player. There is only one word that comes to mind when I think of this album: BRILLIANT.
