Search - Time Spent Driving :: Just Enough Bright

My personal favorite from 2002....Rock's best kept secret...

K. Vaughn | Stockton, CA | 03/12/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"O.K. So all of a sudden "Emo" rock is bigger than ever. Your average jaded teenager thinks that Jimmy Eat World is the second coming, and your average Gap kid thinks life would not be complete without Dashboard Confessional. Then along comes Time Spent Driving whose first full length album does the job that it set out to do and more. With perfectly honest and aching lyrics coupled with perfect melody lines and incongruent time signatures "Just Enough Bright" brings emo rock to the edge with hopes of a new album to push it over. My personal favorite "Thin Like Paper" with it's bitter and heartfelt lyrics being juxtaposed together with it's beautifully ironic chorus "Tommorow when we go our sperate ways, maybe you'll see the light you helped create, shining on it's own" comes into it's own perfectly. From start to finish this album is everything rock music should be and more. While all your friends are raving about "Sweetness" (which is a great song), do yourself a favor and try something a little more genuine and honest."

Best New Punk/ Emo of the past 5 years

Dan Callahan | Long Valley, NJ | 06/03/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"For those of you who may not have heard of Time Spent Driving, expect to hear more of them very soon. While almost everyone else was off listening to Poppy/Punk bands, this band was off quietly writing one of the best albums of the year, maybe even the past 5 years. More than creative and talented enough to compete with the best Emo out there right now, this band is somewhat a bit more mellow than the other stuff that's out there, but don't think that this mellow atmosphere translates into the songwriting on the album. Deep, powerful songwriting is one of the major driving forces behind this album and the band itself. By combining the intense songwriting comprable to The Used and the quiet instrumentals and vocals of Modest Mouse, but still managing to have a sound all their own, Time Spent Driving is here to stay."