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The Kidcrash
New Ruins
Genres: Pop, Rock

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Your Valley Is Our Volcano
2. Until the Light Kills the Film
3. New Ruins
4. Scalpel Cuts Concrete
5. Gun at the Parade
6. The Afterburn of Being Born
7. Talking Underwater
8. Eyes That Never Hit the Sky
9. The Drowning Swan's Song

CD Details

All Artists: The Kidcrash
Title: New Ruins
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Lujo Records
Release Date: 11/2/2004
Genres: Pop, Rock
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 751937254522

Synopsis

Album Description

New Ruins is an indie, mathy, emotive rock album. Recorded in Eudora, KS with Ed Rose at Black Lodge Recording, the album is the first nationally distributed release for The Kidcrash. Influenced by a wide range of music varying from bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, early Jimmy Eat World, Mineral, Braid, Minus The Bear, Cursive and Park. The Kidcrash hope to remind and inspire everyone who listens to their music why they play and why you should start. 'New Ruins' is The Kidcrash?s attempt to fill the silence that so many choose to fill with talk about music when we really should be letting it speak for itself.

CD Reviews

The Kidcrash Deliver One of Year's Best

Paul Osterlund | Albuquerque, New Mexico | 12/27/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album by Santa Fe NM's own the Kidcrash is undoubtedly one of the best rock albums released this year, and is deserving of as much attention that it could possibly receive. Recorded and produced by Ed Rose (Get up Kids/Coalesce fame) in Kansas, "New Ruins" is a very tight and technically driven guitar based emo album. It reminds me of a cross between American Football and Braid, lots of arpeggio guitars and interplayed riffs, and math-rock time changes. There are nine songs that make up for just over 36 minutes, and I love every song on this cd. Most have an uptempo pace to them, "The Afterburn of Being Born" slows things down a bit, and it works. My favorite song has to be "The Drowning Swan's Song". The production is very clean and confident, but it doesn't kill the feeling of the album. The guitar work is some of the best of this genre I have ever heard, this stuff has to be ridiculously difficult to keep time while singing. The bass flows neatly over the guitars, which almost always function as lead instruments, occasionally providing octave chords as rhythm. The drumwork is superb, the fills are accurate and busy with precision, although the drum sound is very very slick. I recommend this album for fans of the two aforementioned bands, along with fans of Minus the Bear, Moneen, older Get Up Kids, Mineral, and Texas is the Reason."