Tell All Your Friends
is quite reminiscent of
the Movielife
's
This Time Next Year
. This is quite understandable when one realizes that one of the members of
Taking Back Sunday
used to be in
. Unfortunately, although there are a few variations, the ability of this band to sound so blatantly like their fellow Long Island comrades is almost their undoing. Vocally,
sounds very close to
the Canterbury Effect
, while musically there are times where they're a bit more rockin' than
in that they have cultivated punk, hardcore, emo, and pop and hybridized it better. It's quite upbeat and very danceable, thus making it fun and interesting. Yet at the same time it's nowhere near original or creative. Perhaps within their genre they're creative, but for the most part, bands like
seem to be all too common in an age of acts like
,
New Found Glory
, and other hardcore/pop-punk acts. ~ Kurt Morris