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Very Emergency (CD)

By: The Promise Ring (Artist)

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The Promise Ring Artist Snapshot:

A band whose early albums practically defined emo, The Promise Ring created a rich body of work in their seven-year existence that gradually moved from melodic post-hardcore to delicate, sparkling indie pop. The sentimental, boyish vocals and lyrics gave voice to a whole new audience of sensitive boys (and the girls who love them), thumbing its nose at punk and hardcore's outsized machismo. By the time of their dissolution, following the release of their gently strummed, lush WOOD/WATER, they were the most popular band in the growing emo genre.

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DISC 1 for Very Emergency (CD) Album By The Promise Ring (Artist)
1   Happiness Is All The Rage
2   Emergency! Emergency!
3   Jersey Shore
4   Happy Hour
5   Things Just Getting Good
6   Living Around
7   Skips A Beat (Over You)
8   Arms & Danger
9   Deep South, The
10   All Of My Everythings
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (11/12/99, p.82) - "...reveals a knack for hook-heavy power pop....will surely be accompanied by rabid air-guitaring..." - Rating: B
Alternative Press (11/99, pp.116,119) - 3 out of 5 - "...full of ferocious hooks....perhaps the catchiest songs this Milwaukee quartet have ever written....VERY EMERGENCY is a most pleasurable listen..."

Title Note

The Promise Ring: Davey Von Bohlen (vocals, guitar); Jason Gnewikow (guitar); Scott Schoenbeck (bass); Dan Didier (drums).

Recorded at Inner Ear Studios, Washington, DC.

VERY EMERGENCY is a true breakthrough album for Milwaukee rockers the Promise Ring. Over the course of five years and three albums prior to this release, the foursome had built a reputation in the Sunny Day Real Estate circles as one of the most hallowed emocore bands around. With VERY EMERGENCY, the band mutates its sound to something closer to Sloan than Quicksand. The amazing thing is that the band seems even better in this realm than it was in its former one.

The tunes here are deceptively basic, following the tradition of 'tude-driven melodic rock passed down from Gene Vincent to the early Beatles to the Modern Lovers to the Replacements. The themes, which are far from the dark, oblique abstractions of the usual emo-fare, are simple expressions of love and reflection. None of this means that the band has descended into blind cheerfulness or left ironic detachment behind--but even the songs involving depression, such as the brilliant "Living Around," possess a disarmingly charming simplicity, one that bathes VERY EMERGENCY in a wonderfully poppy light.

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