NO-FI "MAGAZINE"
presents
NOVEMBER MUSIC TO FALL INTO!
Amps On Ten (from Bell, California...where the hell is Bell, California?!?) hook you right away with the first track of this 4 song single with the song "Jade." Track 2's ""Happy Kind Of People" reminds me a little of XTC meets Sonic Youth. They would be a good opening act for Ballboy. I think this is one of those bands that SHOULD have a cool light show during their live set. They might be one of those bands to watch out for cuz I bet they have more cool stuff to come. Get this one for good walkman walking music. You'll be done before you know it zoning out on the pretty sounds.. HEY! WATCH OUT FOR THAT CAR!!! AAAauaauuuuu....I don't know much about this group, but from what I can find it seems as though they have actually been around awhile. This is a great album. Fast, hard, distorted guitars with dreamy melodic female vocals mixed with slow dreamy music with even dreamier vocals is definately a recipe for good music. The first song builds and builds and builds into the second, which is the perfect song to lie in the grass and look at clouds to. This entire CD is soooooo good. It reminds me of the early 90's and some music that I was listening to at that time. My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Catherine Wheel...not that they sound alot like these bands, they just remind me of them and the sound that was being heard at that time. This CD is wonderful, did I already say that? Oh yeah...and did I mention that I like this CD? Yeah, I guess I did. Well, go get it now. 
You know that couple you always see at parties who always seem to have a guitar and are singing to a small crowd in some corner of the room? This is them. While I actually enjoy this CD, it is best not listened to at 3am on a long drive home. You'll just end up waking up a few months later in a hospital bed after falling asleep at the wheel. No, this is music best heard at a fancy-pants dinner party (when nobody'll let you listen to your Black Flag cds) or on some private beach in Hawaii while you sip coconut milk under an umbrella (I especially recommend tracks 2 ("Pillowmint") and 9 ("Silent Tea") for this). Imagine a cross between Stereolab, a nod to Geraldine Fibbers, and your friends that go to Art Center and you can probably imagine what this band is sorta like.
This CD has some really really good songs, but I hesitate to fully recommend it. It contains so many elements that have been done so much better, and it contains some elements that have been done so much worse like Jewel and Ani Defranco (I know, you probably like her, but I find her highly overrated) type sounds. The best way for me to describe it is, music that would appear on various movie soundtracks, probably a Cameron Diaz movie. The first track is really good, then the second track crosses over into top 40 pop radio hit territory. That is how the entire thing is. It's all either hit or miss. But the last four songs are the best on the CD. Some of the songs are so good in fact that you are left unsatisfied because it never takes you anywhere. (Does that make sense?) If you want good music to listen to while your doing something else then go ahead and get this.
