Track Listing

1. Shower Scene
2. Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
3. Sudden Death in Carolina
4. Mix Tape
5. Failure by Design
6. Last Chance to Lose Your Keys
7. Logan to Government Center
8. No Seatbelt Song
9. Seventy Times 7
10. Secondary
11. Magazines
12. Soco Amaretto Lime

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25648 in Music
• Released on: 2004-04-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
Somewhere along the road, the offshoot of American punk-rock commonly referred to as emotional hardcore stopped being about gut-churningly earnest bursts of angst and started being like Brand New's Your Favourite Weapon--an album of catchy, honey-sweet pop-punk tunes about what it's like to get together, break up and get together again with pretty girls. "This isn't high-school!" shrieks lead singer Jesse Lacey on "Last Chance to Lose Your Keys"--but it's pretty clear that Dawson's Creek-style affairs of the heart are the order of this day.

Musically, Brand New are a little more refined than their peers like Good Charlotte, handling minor-chord melancholy and fraught acoustic sections as well as they deal with the mosh-friendly chorus. Mind you, it's Brand New's skill at storytelling that makes this much more than an exercise in juvenilia: "Tell all the English boys you meet /About the American boy back in the States / The American boy you used to meet" goes "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad", a tenderly-observed story of a relationship conducted over transatlantic phone lines that's slowly, painfully hitting the skids. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Brand New-this is NOT pop punk!!
Ive been listening to Brand New for a couple of months now and a band this good cant stay unnoticed for much longer. Supporting Finch this spring in the UK its only a matter of time before their name starts appearing in tip-ex on scruffy moshers bags and teenage girl's homework diaries all over Britain. Which is a shame because they are above that. Their sound is a skillfull blend of acts like Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World and the Get Up Kids with a hint of punk thrown in for fun. When they say in Failure by design "we don't believe in filler baby" they aren't lying. The songs are consistently excellent however my personal favourites are Mix Tape, Magazines, Soco Ameretto Lime and (undoubtedly sure to be their first single) Jude Law and a Semester Abroad. Buy this album now and enjoy them before they slowly lose their credibility in the face of mass teen popularity. They also have a Split CD with Safety in Numbers (which is extremely hard to obtain due to the limited amount produced) and a DVD on Triple Crown (again limited).I proudly own both.Look out for the new album this june...

Brand New-this is not pop punk
Ive been listening to Brand New for a couple of months now and a band this good cant stay unnoticed for much longer. Supporting Finch this spring in the UK its only a matter of time before their name starts appearing in tip-ex on scruffy moshers bags and teenage girl's homework diaries all over Britain. Which is a shame because they are above that. Their sound is a skillfull blend of acts like Taking Back Sunday, Jimmy Eat World and the Get Up Kids with a hint of punk thrown in for fun. When they say in Failure by design "we don't believe in filler baby" they aren't lying. The songs are consistently excellent however my personal favourites are Mix Tape, Magazines, Soco Ameretto Lime and (undoubtedly sure to be their first single) Jude Law and a Semester Abroad. Buy this album now and enjoy them before they slowly lose their credibility. They also have a Split CD with Safety in Numbers which is extremely hard to obtain due to the limited amount produced...

Wonderfully messed up take on pop-punk songs about girls
Brand New have the melody of a band pushing for a major label deal - see the "we're not in high school" refrain on Last Chance To Lose Your Keys" - but break the mould of songs about having your heart broken; some songs are about wishing their ex-girlfriends were killed in a variety of horrifying ways. The no-seatbelt song is self explanatory and Jude Law and a semester abroad wishes a plane crash on an ex moving to the good old UK! Lyrically they kind of remind me of Alk3 mixed with Saves The Day. If you like pop-punk in the vein of the ataris but are looking for something that departs from their formula try this.