And you will know us by having a name that's too long would've been a great line if this wasn't perhaps the best album of the new year. This one goes toe-to-toe with the other best album of the year, The Anniversary's Your Majesty. This is a great big, ambitious, scorcher of an album that wonderfully combines the grandiose scope of Sunny Day Real Estate, with the straight-forward power-emo of The Get Up Kids, but in so doing manages to come across as refreshingly original. With album's like this wide-open and brilliant it won't be long until Indie/Emo wades into the mainstream just like it's Grungy older-brother. And things will have to start all over again. The most accurate description of The Trail Of Our Dead would be the Strokes meets Led Zeppelin. We're going to have to start all over with the genre thing. This one approaches Nirvana.
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