Artist : Friendly Contribution

Album : where I am and what to be

Date Released : 2004

Type Of Music : garage rock, alternative

 

Track Listing :

1.      The Downfall of Airbag Safety

2.      Synth Pop

3.      Vacation

4.      Get Down

5.      xoxo

6.      The sky Talked More Than We Did

7.      Misplaced

8.      Take Me With you

9.      Memento Mori

10.  Synth Pop (because I can’t date myself remix)

11.   I Can Touch Bottom Here

Review :

            This local four piece band from up north helps clean off some of  the dirt I have on my rose tinted glasses. They are a great example of a new generation of young rockers that got there stuff together musically as well as emotionally… no matter the emotion Melanie has a great way of presenting it in her stage performance as well on record.

This album was just released a little over a month ago and they only made about 100 copies I think, so I strongly advise that you order your copy today before it has a bar code on the back. The art work is this really cool modern colored cutout of random people in the city eating, riding bikes, falling off trains and being slapped. It also gets a plus one with me to for having all the lyrics printed in side.

            “Vacation” was a cute punkish cover of the Go Gos .One of the tracks that stick out to me the most is “xoxo”. She say’s “Do you know I only sleep when I know you will be in my dreams? Do you know how it feels to miss something that was never real?” For some reason this has really stuck with me as well as Memento Mori and the Downfall of the Airbag Safety. Most of the songs feel like the vocalist is constantly trying to relate to an absent person. However at the end of it all if you listen closely it is just her way of putting closure on the situation in her own way.

 

Rating : *** ½

 

By : Zinthra

 

Web Site: http://www.friendlycontribution.tk