Exit English by Strike Anywhere (CD, Oct-2003, Jade Tree Records)new sealed

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Album Features
UPC: 792258108729
Artist: Strike Anywhere
Format: CD
Release Year: 2003
Record Label: Jade Tree Records
Genre: Hardcore, Punk

Track Listing
1. Amplify
2. Blaze
3. Infrared
4. To the World
5. New Architects
6. Lights Go Out
7. Fifth Estate
8. Modern Life
9. Aluminum Union
10. Extinguish
11. In the Fingernails
12. 'Til Days Shall Be No More

Details
Playing Time: 32 min.
Producer: Strike Anywhere, Brian McTernan
Distributor: Alternative Dis. Alliance
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Recorded at Salad Days Studios, Maryland.Personnel: Matt Sherwood, Garth Petrie, Sam Cave (vocals).Audio Mixer: Brian McTernan.Recording information: Salad Days.Photographer: Shane McCauley.Though not as groundbreaking as the hype would suggest, Strike Anywhere's Exit English is an inflammatory and always on-the-verge political punk album. Like Avail and Lifetime, Strike Anywhere melds melodicism and hooks to unrelenting hardcore intensity. It makes for a record that is as fun as it is serious -- equal parts pogo punk and agitprop anti-authoritarianism. Songs like "Blaze" and "To the World" sound like an East Coast version of the Offspring circa Smash -- certainly high praise in terms of catchiness. And even if sometimes the band is a bit heavy-handed ("The voices of the people will come down like rain!"), Strike Anywhere plays music that is the arena rock of punk: shout-along choruses ("Lights Go Out"), spiraling riffs, vocal chord-thrashing screams. The only real drawback is that while bands like the Blood Brothers, the Mars Volta, and the Weakerthans are pushing punk music into markedly different (from each other) and strikingly fresh terrain, Strike Anywhere seems to be firmly planted in the moment during 1994 when the hardcore scene finally really embraced melody -- not a bad place to be, but the members of Strike Anywhere have more in them than that. ~ Charles Spano
 
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