This is an Enhanced CD which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Something Corporate: Andrew McMahon (vocals, piano); Josh Partington, William Tell (guitar); Clutch (bass); Brian Ireland (drums).
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Amid the early millennial onslaught of emo bands like Saves The Day and Taking Back Sunday, Something Corporate differentiated themselves via frontman Andrew McMahon manning a piano instead of the more customary guitar. Their sophomore effort NORTH picks up the heartfelt motives of their debut LEAVING THROUGH THE WINDOW and expands upon them by infusing their emo-soaked inspiration in third-person story-songs. Among the more notable tales included are the foreboding "Me and the Moon," with its opening line "It's a good year for a murder…" and the equally despairing "Break Myself."
Although guitarists Josh Partington and William Tell offer up quite a sea of churning riffs, it's the clean tone of McMahon's piano that gives a patina of gravitas to weighty fare like "Down" and the anthemic "The Runaway." All is not doom and gloom, though, as Something Corporate manages to poke fun at youthful derring-do amid the rugged guitars of "21 and Invincible." With NORTH, Something Corporate easily disproves any talk of a sophomore jinx.
