Mates of State
Mates of State - Goods
Let's face it.....Mates of State's 3rd full length (Team Boo) just wasn't as good as their first two releases (My Solo Project and Our Constant Concern, respectively). I was disappointed. I hoped that the band would take their strengths of awesome vocals, catchy keyboard parts, and smooth drumming and well, make them stronger. Instead they made something that just didn't quite keep up with their earlier releases. It just languished in midtempos and boring keyboard parts.
Mates of State have returned with both a DVD and a new EP. This track comes off the EP and takes the band's aforementioned strengths and has fun with them.
The opening keyboards sound like they belong in a hockey arena, well, maybe at least NHL 95 for the Sega Genesis (you can make their heads bleed!). Then the drums kick in with that Cure sounding keyboard drop in, and that sold me right there. You can either sing along to Jason or Kori, and all is well. And you can't help but sing along. Mates of State are just like that. Of course its more fun if you have someone sitting next to you in the car to play off of.
This song is just fun. Did I mention that yet?
posted by Tyler @ 11:20 PM
1 Comments:
To be perfectly honest i think u are dumb! Mates of state have the only sound i think that takes music where it needs to go. When i first heard Team Boo the total C.d caught my attention as soon as i pushed play, i have also heard the past two cd's and in my opinion there is no contest between them and Team Boo. From listening to all three albums, i say mates of state is doing a great job evolving as artist. Thats why we like music isn't it cause it's always striving to be better? Other works seem to be just noise and when i heard mates of state it gave me hope that somepeople aren't out to just make money.
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