Normally I can’t stand it when bands use polysyllabic words too much, but The Velocet pulls it off on A Quick and Dirty Guide to War. They use words like “circumstance” and “coronation” without even rhyming them…
Meh. That’s been my response whenever I had this album playing. I listened to this a couple times on my way to work the past few weeks and, honestly, nothing stands out here. Good production and all, but nothing new. It’s basically a mix of No Knife and Static Prevails-era Jimmy Eat World…
With The Streets, The Sounds, and The Love, the debut full-length from Jersey’s New Atlantic, the band lunges out of nowhere to join the crowd of thankfully-growing emo-pop bands currently smiling their way across America. New Atlantic run with that small-ish crew of bands…
