If you’re ever going to ask me which is my favorite band for this part of 2007, my answer would be Weatherbox. Why? Because I never heard of these guys, but when I popped their new Doghouse Records CD in my stereo, I jumped on my chair. Who the hell are these guys, where do they come from and how the heck can they sound so loud?

Yes, their music is explosive, a real music bomb in your ears, and if you listen carefully, you will hear how they get influences from old school indie rock band, as well as from “new” emo wave. Take the best parts of The Get Up Kids and throw them together with Say Anything’s Max Bemis unique vocals, add more rock and rolling guitar riffs, a furious singer with screaming lines, and you will get Weatherbox.

“American Art” is an album where there is no space to relax: the rhythms are seriously fast, and songs like “Aroms Smash”, “The Drugs” and “I Worship Raw Beats” will get you in the right mood to start to dance.

This disc is pure madness, and if you want to discover now, do it: either way, wait a couple of years and let your friends tell you that some major label has just reissued a old record by the coolest indie band around. Oh wait, that already happened with Say Anything.

Tracklist

1. Atoms Smash
2. Armed to the Teeth
3. The Clearing
4. Wolftank, Doff Thy Name
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6. Moments Before the Smashing of Future Ryan
7. Snakes, Our Ground
8. A Flock of Weatherboxes
9. I Worship Raw Beats
10. The Dreams
11. The Drugs
12. Drop The Mike
13. Trippin’ the Life Fantastic

Buy “American Art” here.