Never Take Friendship Personal–Anberlin


Love it, Love it, Love it!

Catchy rhythms, nice lyrics, and good sound. I saw Anberlin in concert a couple years ago, when they were playing as the opening band for a not-so-famous band. That’s pretty low. I hated them. They put on a horrible show. Now with their new album they are topping the charts at Smartpunk.com and Purevolume.com. They have been on tour with My Chemical Romance and other such famous bands. I guess their concert performance talents should have improved in a couple of years. I would deffinately see them in concert now.

But this review isn’t about the tour, it’s about the album. I’ll make the assumption that their first national tour was with Relient K. Their songs are deeper, a little darker, less punk, and more serious than Relient K’s songs. [It's freakin' hard to write a music revew...]

They sound like…what do they sound like? They sound like underground alternative [I guess]. There is no punk in this album, which is disappointing for me, but to make up for that the last track, “dance, dance Christa Paffgen”, has a bit of a techno feel to it. And the rest of the album is fast, heavy on the bass, some good riffs.

Deffinately recommended! Personal taste says that they beat U2. They beat them like Bucknell beat Kansas. That’s too close of a win though. They beat U2 like North Carolina beat Oakland(96-68). If they had a bigger fan base they could have walked away with all the Grammys, but it’s all rigged anyways.