New Music Reviews 3.2.08

Here is the new music you heard this week on Y-Rock On XPN's Philly Local

BRASS - "Set & Drift"

New band, new style, new attitude, from former members of Alison Ranger, Motumbos Hospital, & North Star Infinite. This new band blends indie rock hooks and melodies with  a technical display of instrumentation that races from quiet melodies to a wonderful thundering explosion of math rock/prog. Sounds like early Incubus (think of the sound of S.C.I.E.N.C.E. ), meets Mars Volta, meets Faith No More, with harmonizing pop hooks over crunching riffs similar to later day music of The Beatles and The Who. This is pretty awesome if I do say so myself, and I do, and that's why you are reading this...

BEST TRACKS: 2 "The Optimist", 1 "Autumn Hex Signs", 5 "Separate Bodies", 7 " Tall Ships"

JAKE'S RATING: 5 of 5

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