Monday, April 2, 2007

The Academy Is. . . - Santi











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Artist:
The Academy Is. . .


Review:
The Academy Is . . . are five suburban Chicago young?uns with
excellent connections (they?re on Fall Out Boy?s label) and a
major-label debut that offers big, not-exactly-emo songs with high
hook quotient and a well-modulated guitar attack. When
Santi is good (on ?We?ve Got a Big Mess on Our Hands? and
?Neighbors?), they?ve got a sugar-shot late-Eighties pop-rock
appeal, but most of the album is forgettable, or worse: Songs like
?You Might Have Noticed? are annoyingly dark and whiny, and a...



Rating:
2.5 Stars





Source: http://www.rollingstone.com

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