http://withoutsound.com/2006/01/18/the-southland-2/ Brains without purpose. Noise without sound. Games without frontiers. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:54:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://withoutsound.com/2006/01/18/the-southland-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2476 Best of the Bitch - Top 10 Albums, Part 1 at (((withoutsound))) Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:29:41 +0000 http://withoutsound.com/2006/01/18/the-southland-2/#comment-2476 [...] 1 Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That What We Said Then: Fans of The Southland and other mellow 70s rock-pop stylings will enjoy this. I don’t know if it’s reception hangover, but this group of Parisians has quickly pulled even with Islands and Band of Horses as one of my favorites of the first half of 2006. [...] [...] 1 Phoenix – It’s Never Been Like That What We Said Then: Fans of The Southland and other mellow 70s rock-pop stylings will enjoy this. I don’t know if it’s reception hangover, but this group of Parisians has quickly pulled even with Islands and Band of Horses as one of my favorites of the first half of 2006. [...]

]]> http://withoutsound.com/2006/01/18/the-southland-2/comment-page-1/#comment-358 (((withoutsound))) » Blog Archive » Belle Ohio Tue, 08 Aug 2006 03:57:43 +0000 http://withoutsound.com/2006/01/18/the-southland-2/#comment-358 [...] If you listen to Bel Auburn’s debut album, Cathedrals, immediately after listening to Full Moon Cigarette, you might start to wonder if it was perhaps an earlier Gran Bel Fisher recording as Coldplay and Radiohead seem to permeate the disc. But after listening to Bel Auburn’s second album, Lullabies in A & C (self-released August 14th), it’s easy to hear that the band has not only matured but also begun to craft their own ornate sound. On Lullabies in A & C it’s a sound that incorporates elements of Fear-era Toad the Wet Sprocket, Catherine Wheel, Buellton, The Southland, and Snow Patrol’s latest, Eyes Open. It’s as if Pinocchio willed himself to become a real boy instead of having a fairy turn him into one. Bel Auburn is a real band and Lullabies in A & C is clever, literate, and sometimes heart wrenching. This is music you want to listen to when you are getting ready to drive off a cliff after the girl you thought was “the one” broke up with you. It just might make your turn around. [...] [...] If you listen to Bel Auburn’s debut album, Cathedrals, immediately after listening to Full Moon Cigarette, you might start to wonder if it was perhaps an earlier Gran Bel Fisher recording as Coldplay and Radiohead seem to permeate the disc. But after listening to Bel Auburn’s second album, Lullabies in A & C (self-released August 14th), it’s easy to hear that the band has not only matured but also begun to craft their own ornate sound. On Lullabies in A & C it’s a sound that incorporates elements of Fear-era Toad the Wet Sprocket, Catherine Wheel, Buellton, The Southland, and Snow Patrol’s latest, Eyes Open. It’s as if Pinocchio willed himself to become a real boy instead of having a fairy turn him into one. Bel Auburn is a real band and Lullabies in A & C is clever, literate, and sometimes heart wrenching. This is music you want to listen to when you are getting ready to drive off a cliff after the girl you thought was “the one” broke up with you. It just might make your turn around. [...]

]]> http://withoutsound.com/2006/01/18/the-southland-2/comment-page-1/#comment-204 (((withoutsound))) » Blog Archive » Phoenix Rising Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:10:09 +0000 http://withoutsound.com/2006/01/18/the-southland-2/#comment-204 [...] Fans of The Southland and other mellow 70s rock-pop stylings will enjoy this. I don’t know if it’s reception hangover, but this group of Parisians has quickly pulled even with Islands and Band of Horses as one of my favorites of the first half of 2006. [...] [...] Fans of The Southland and other mellow 70s rock-pop stylings will enjoy this. I don’t know if it’s reception hangover, but this group of Parisians has quickly pulled even with Islands and Band of Horses as one of my favorites of the first half of 2006. [...]

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