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110% better than the fisrt album

Tim | Washington, DC | 09/21/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"After I heard Few and Far Between I thought that Count Me Out could do no better. They made a phenomenal jump from thier demo to first album in terms of actual sound quality of the album and content. I was quite amazed at the time at how good of a record a band this small (at the time) could put out. But, upon hearing 110 for the first time (no pun intended) I was equally blown away at the improvement Count Me Out had made. The sound quality and production are outstanding. Lead singer Jason Mazzolla puts on his angriest voice ever and rips through each song like it were the most powerful on the album. A cleaner and newer rendition of "What We Built" is included on 110, but you wouldn't even notice that you'd heard it before on Few and Far Between. The title track ("110") may be the best song on the album, but it has lots of competition; all of the tracks, save the instrumental, are sing-along-friendly and very danceable. Even the layout is pretty good. Kinda artsy though, if you're into that.There are ten songs including one instrumental and most are relatively short (the shortest, and angriest, song is about 40 seconds). I couldn't stop listening to this album for a long time and ended up buying both the record and cd version (they are identical). Count Me Out's switch to Indecision Records was a good move and has benefit them well. You've heard it before, but it's true : If you liked the first album, you'll like this one too. Late."