DID YOU KNOW?

Have you ever found great music through this site? Clicking on our sponsor links and then shopping at Barnes & Noble, Insound, or Amazon costs you nothing. By purchasing music using the above links you are supporting the artists and helping support Can You See the Sunset. Thanks!

Review: The State Lottery – Cities We’re Not From

Yeah, this record is pretty much awesome. There is no hyperbole in that statement either. Just imagine what might happen if you extracted the DNA from The Lawrence Arms (which itself contains some Jawbreaker DNA), Lucero, and The Weakerthans, added some yellow #5 coloring and filtered out most of the alcoholism and you’ve pretty much hit the nail on the head when it comes to The State Lottery, a band whose members call NYC, Detroit, and Seattle home. It is intense without being overly abrasive and melodic without being overly catchy. It is simply raspy and raw punk rock with the traditional punk instrumentation augmented by organs, keys, horns, harmonica, etc… The eight songs on it didn’t really grab me at first (I’m being totally honest here) but something just clicked near the end of my second time through and I’ve been totally hooked since then. Now, I realize that The State Lottery fits into that category of “hip” bands that combines alt-country and punk rock, but on Cities We’re Not From there is no pretense and it just sounds right. All in all, this is a very very (ultra-fantastic) solid and genre-spanning effort from a new band I was unfamiliar until Will recommended this. You can actually get the whole thing for free from the awesome folks at ,a href=“http://www.ifyoumakeit.com/albums/”>If You Make It (also home of the Pink Couch Sessions).

MP3 | The State Lottery – Tired Songs Cities We’re Not From
MP3 | The State Lottery – Two Way Street Cities We’re Not From

Related posts:

  1. Review: Richmond Fontaine – Thirteen Cities (or) cities are buring and turing into dust
  2. Review: Rapid Cities – 3 song demo
  3. Review: Mates of State – Re-Arrange Us
  4. State of love and trust
  5. Review: Illinois – What The Hell Do I Know? (or) crossing state lines and moving on
Trackbacks/Pingbacks
  1. this aggression will not stand » Blog Archive » :: 7.26.10 ∙•∙ 7.29.10 ∙•∙ 7.30.10 at death by audio ::
Leave a Reply


Wanting to leave an <em>phasis on your comment?

Trackback URL http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/review-the-state-lottery-cities-were-not-from/trackback/