Track Listing

1. Kids in Love
2. Anywhere But Here
3. Silence
4. Still Breathing
5. Bruised and Scarred
6. If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?
7. Save Your Heart
8. Get Up
9. Center of Attention
10. I Swear This Time I Mean It
11. End

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3273 in Music
• Released on: 2009-10-06
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 4.00" w x 4.00" l, .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

A Tribute To Jennifers Everywhere !!
Following hard on the heels of Relient K and their fine new album
'Forget and Not Slow Down' Mayday Parade, too, show that they are
here to stand up and be counted.

Their new album 'Anywhere but Here' builds on the steady foundations
laid down in their 2007 album 'A Lesson In Romantics'.

The eleven tracks in this collection display a firm grasp of the formula
needed to create yoof-friendly melodic power-pop for the I'm-Not-
Ready-To-Die-Yet-but-I-Sure-Look-Good-In-Black generation.

There is plenty of energy here. The tunes are strong; the choruses worthy
of hands-in-the-air sing-along antics; the beats are big and bouncey thanks
to robust drummer Jake Bundrick's prowess with the skins.

There's not much to choose between individual tracks - they're all good.

Special mentions are deserved however for splendid opening track
'Kids In Love', a rollickingly focussed performance from singer Derek Sanders.
The workmanlike management of his not insignificant instrument and musical
materials is delivered dutifully and consistently throughout the project.

'Bruised and Scarred' is the kind of song which always makes me smile.
Cliched to within an inch of its life but surviving by virtue of the honest
vigour and determination of its perpetrators.
With lyrics like "Baby be honest - is this what you wanted.... ?" you
know exactly what territory you're in - and it's just fine and dandy !

'Save Your Heart' shows some capacity to deliver light and shade.
The slower tempo and resounding chorus manage to be curiously uplifting.
To be honest I found myself listening to it on repeat for a while so
I guess it must come near to being my favorite track.

Soppy ballad 'I Swear I Mean It This Time'' came a very close second though.

Alex Garcia (lead guitar), Jeremy Lenzo (bass) and Brooks Betts (rhythm guitar)
have all clearly studied hard within the hallowed halls of The School Of Rock
and passed all their exams with flying colours.
The band is a tight and efficient little ensemble.

One last word on the music. 'Centre Of Attention' is, on its lyrical merits alone,
worth the price of the album. Any song about a girl named Jennifer gets my thumbs up!
Jennifers are woefully underrepresented in the annals of popular culture.
Mayday Parade can be proud that they have redressed a glaring and unforgivable inequality !

Put your best foot forward and join the parade. It's a good day out !

Highly Recommended.