High-class rhymes, low-brow beats, and more party than the Bolshevik revolution. On their Photo Finish Records debut, recorded with noted producer Matt Squire (Boys Like Girls, Panic At The Disco) and booty bassmaster Benny Blanco (Spank Rock, Bangers & Cash), these homeboys crumble their crackers into a saucy stew of hip-hop hardness, electro eroticism, and 80s pop pabulum.

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High-class rhymes, low-brow beats, and more party than the Bolshevik revolution. On their Photo Finish Records debut, recorded with noted producer Matt Squire (Boys Like Girls, Panic At The Disco) and booty bassmaster Benny Blanco (Spank Rock, Bangers & Cash), these homeboys crumble their crackers into a saucy stew of Hip-Hop hardness, Electro eroticism, and 80s Pop pabulum. 12 tracks.

Death Cab for Cutie turn difficult personal issues into literary rock songs while straddling the narrow line between blissful pop and driving indie rock. The Northwest act's songs soar high like Built to Spill's or Beulah's, and almost every track on The Photo Album is as musically bouncy and upbeat as the best of those bands. As catchy as the songs on The Photo Album may be, though, it's really front man Benjamin Gibbard's comfort with laying his emotional issues bare that makes this an excellent album. "Styrofoam Plates" is the most stunning track, with words that leave chills long after they've disappeared. As Gibbard sings about anger for a dead father ("It's not quite a stretch to say you were not quite a father / But a donor of seeds to a poor single mother / That would raise us alone / We never saw the money / It went down your throat down the hole in your belly"), his stark honesty makes this dysfunctional family story the most compelling piece of this album. The other issues of clumsy relationships pale a little in comparison, but The Photo Album still leaves little doubt that Death Cab deserve all the indie rock accolades they have received. --Jennifer Maerz

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3rd full-length from Seattle indie darlings features guest appearances by Sean Nelson, John Vanderslice & James Mendenhall ,on Barsuk Records.

Anthony Green, the lead singer of Circa Survive, releases this side project; a collection of songs he's written in the course of the past five years. Twenty songs in a limited edition package. Once the initial run is exhausted, there'll be a standard run with fewer tracks.

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Deluxe Edition. Avalon is the debut 2008 solo album by Circa Survive vocalist Anthony Green. Released on Photo Finish Records, with a US tour to coincide with its release. Keith Goodwin, Tim Arnold, Dan Schwartz (also known as the band Good Old War), and Adam Lazzara have guest appearances on this record. Anthony Green is a musician from Philadelphia, PA. He is the lead singer of Circa Survive, and previously in the bands Audience of One, Jeer At Rome, High and Driving, Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer, Saosin, and more recently, The Sound of Animals Fighting. He is known for his extremely high vocal range and dynamics. 20 tracks.