Hot Rod Circuit - Reality's Coming Through (2004) [FLAC] torrent

Hot Rod Circuit - Reality's Coming Through (2004) [FLAC]

Released: 2004
Duration: 35:58
Genre: Pop/Rock
Style: Indie, Alternative
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 1,000 kbps
Bits Per Sample: 16
Sample Rate: 44,100 Hz
Cover: Front

01 Inhabit
02 Save You
03 Fear the Sound
04 Cheap Trick
05 Failure
06 Tell the Truth
07 Unfaithful (feat. Chris Carrabba)
08 The Best You Ever Knew
09 Crossbow
10 Riding a Low
11 Moonlight - Sunlight

Though they reside on Vagrant and have matured at a rate and in a manner similar to the Get Up Kids, there's something...East Coast about Hot Rod Circuit that cordons them off from the dreaded emo-pop tag. While Reality's Coming Through has its share of pleading choruses and heartstring-tug power-chord changes (and genre spokesman Chris Carrabba guests on the rousing "Unfaithful"), this effort mostly suggests the resigned, flinty rock of Buffalo Tom, or vaguely the later Barlow/Loewenstein axis of Sebadoh. "Fear the Sound"'s wrangled guitars and struggling half-time, "Cheap Trick"'s clever musical references, the achy, pedal steel-tinged "Best You Ever Knew" - these songs don't deserve to be corralled behind the invisible fence of a meaningless genre. The presence of old-hand East Coast producer Tim O'Heir might have something to do with the blue-gray vibe of Reality's Coming Through, but there's that title, too, which suggests Hot Rod Circuit themselves know this album is the one. It might be the Let Me Come Over of this decade.