Reviews

This album took me a while to figure out. I wasn't sure how I felt about it for a good long time. After listening to it a couple times, I realized what this album felt like; it feels like it's the background music at a indie coffee shop. The music is good and has a very genuine soul that gives the recording itself personality, but it never really jumps out to take hold of my attention. To me, it feels like this album will just be washed away with the waves of indie music that just keep coming.

Some tracks have some real potential and are pretty good in composition. Songs like "Sing It!" and "White Blazes" are the kind of tracks that would seem to fit good as the backing songs to an independent film, which is the thing that somewhat bothers me about the album; I feel like it needs something exterior to really make it have the impact that it is going for. It has all the right parts, but something is just missing.

Another problem is that at times, the music seems to be a little repetitive and bland. But then again, this is one of the chances a band takes with indie music; some people may "get it" while other don't. To make it plain and simple, I just don't "get" this album. I like the songs, I like how some of them were composed and i admit that a couple of the songs are downright catchy, but as an album overall, it seems like just another acoustic-cafe-lounge-art school record and it just doesn't make me want to go see them live or buy any of their other albums.

Redshift/Blueshift would be good for anyone into indie or acoustic soft rock, and it could be a good album to have for background music at a party maybe, but that's about it.