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A to B: Life [Vinyl]

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This album is going to be a classic. Unlike a lot of music where people scream you actually feel what he is feeling. Sometimes it is so raw that I get goosbumps when I hear some of these lyrics. Lyrically this maybe one of the best albums I have ever heard with the opening lines of Gentlemen, "We never met you and I, we were always inside, we were so far inside one another and I'll live without you love but what is one glove without the other?"

I am usually never into screaming at all some of my favorite bands are Interpol, Modest Mouse ect. but this album touches me because it maybe the most genuine music I have ever heard. On paper the lyrics do not sound very moving but when the singer screams, "I once was alive, when you held me" you just feel what he is saying.

I saw these guys live this summer and I think they maybe better live because you get more of the emotion. I am from close to where they are from and the girl that most of the songs are about was at the show. Which was kind of awkward but added to the experience.

Music wise this band is also very good. The instuments are sometimes very hard and sometimes very soft. There are some spacy fillers that are also very good.

Mewithoutyou is like no band I have ever heard. I look forward to seeing them progress and make great music but I don't think they will come close to A to B: Life. Hopefully they will.

MewithoutYou is simply unbelievable! I don't think you could just call it hardcore, I guess it's more hardcore than anything else...but not just hardcore. I've heard some describe it as punk meets hardcore meets emo meets folk, etc. You just can't label it; I call it poetry! "Through a garden overgrown, no it's a long walk home. I said I'd not come back...I'm coming back and you'd better be alone." Like the last guy said, the whole beauty of MWY is their live show. To be honest, after seeing them live for the first time I was a little disappointed when I listened to the cd, but I said a little. I've seen them 3 times; when I saw them at Furnace Fest 2002 they threw flowers (or sod or whatever it was) everywhere! They, or I should say Aaron, knocked stuff over as usual and pranced around the stage like a true romantic. I think I saw him kissing people's feet in the audience. If you like their music, go see them live. If you don't like their music, go see them live. It's entertaining at the very least. Simply put, mewithoutYou is one of the most inventive and brilliant bands out there, so buy the cd!

What an amazing album! Finally, a hardcore band that has the capability of being melodic as well as yelling emotional vocals. MWY is extremely talented and they portray an uplifting, Christian influence through their music. Every track on the album is great.

The standouts on the cd are:

track 1. "bullet to the binary"(great intro and outro, brilliant lyrics, exciting bridge)

track 3. "nice and blue"(great lyrics, perhaps the best bridge on the album)

track 4. "everything was beautiful and nothing hurt"(soothing lyrics, solid bass and drums, incredible outro with some of the most passionate yelling/singing on the cd)

track 6. "gentlemen"(amazing, catchy vocals and a very good beat\great chorus)

track 8. "we know who our enemies are"(nice guitar, great tandem vocals, and once again, fantastic outro featuring amazing lyrics and great guitar)

track 11. "silencer"(beautiful guitar, penetrating drums, and some of the best lyrics on the album)

If it seems like I said most of the songs on the album are standouts, it's because every song is just unique and sweet in its own way. This cd is a must have by a incredible new band that should be prominent for a long while.

This in my most favorite cd ever. The performance delivered from this band is nothing short of breathtaking. The style of the guitarist is very original and unique. The style of the singer is amazing, he can write poetry better than any famous poet and is so truthful and personal, it just gets to you. His voice sounds so intense also. The drums are very moody, and can range from a sweet, soothing beat to a hardcore pounding.
Another thing about this band is the live show is by far the best you can ever see. They cover the amps and stage in flower petals and the singer holds a boquet of flowers and starts thrashing it around when the music starts. The singer will flail his arms and spin around and fall to the ground while telling his emotional and confessional message to the audience, the drummer is a beast that pounds on his drums like a madman, the guitarist will swing his guitar in uncontrolled and uncoordinated ways all around his body. The bassist will saunter around the stage as if searching for some sort of answer. It truly is an amazing show that will take your breath away. A ticket to see them is worth any amount of money. The live show is Far better than the cd also. Please support this band. Even though this band is christian they are not at all the preachy type, they deliver their beliefs in a way that makes you want to comfort him or praise the Lord with him. If you aren't already a believer don't be surprised if their music and/or live show makes you a believer.

This is one of the best CHRISTIAN albums of all time. Its VERY edgy and unique. Its HARD enough for emo/screamo/progressive punk/metal---types. WHETHER CHRISTIAN OR NOT!!!!
POETS and HIP HOP HEADS (like me) might also enjoy it because the vocals are pure poetry ----in the literal sense. The guy's not so much SINGING as doing a coffee-house poetry rant. And the lyrics are OUTSTANDING.
It's truly amazing----one of those cool obscure albums that you just have to have.

ok... i'll have to admit... i saw this band at rockettown in nashville, with lovedrug and working title...and mewithoutyou was last... at first, i hated it...i was like..are u serious?...this is the closing band?...but i kept watching because it was kinda funny... and i started to like them because they are probably the most entertaining bands i've ever seen before...the singer broke like 3 mics, and at one point i couldn't breathe because i was laughin so hard at the drummer, and a few of the band member's long beards...i mean...there's nobody like them...but i would classify their music as... if tool and a perfect circle went indie. then u tie in a poetic screamer and lots of awesomeness, which if your not used to that, it make take a few listens to appreciate it...if the random yelling is getting to ya just try to get into them by listenin to The Ghost (track 2) he kinda sings a lil on that one..lol...u just gotta let go, and surrender

This is an extremely impressive CD. A mix of very hard music and beautiful, if dark, lyrics, makes this a very meaningful album. I was very impressed with the guitarwork, a wonderful and unique break from the standard metal power chords of most rock today. This is fresh, interesting the whole way through, and completely blew me away. Buy this.

Mewithoutyou can be described by one word, unique. Their blend of punk, hardcore, emo, and just plain wierdness is comparable to no other. the closest band they would be compared to are At the Drive IN and Fugazi. If you have ever heard the song Dancing on the Corpses Ashes by At the Drive In, you have a pretty good idea of what Mewithoutyou sounds like. This cd is worth the money and is probably one of the better cds Tooth and NAil has put out in a long time. You will not be disappointed.

With the energetic sound of "Bullet to Binary", mewithoutYou's first full-length immediately stands out. Front man Aaron Weiss brashly yelling, "Let us die, let us die!" and distorted guitars keeping a quick beat, this album that pulls you from one raw blast of sound to the next, with one song starting before you're even sure the last one has ended. Between screams, though (and sometimes even during them), you'll find the most fascinating of arrangements and experimentations. The album's second song, for example, "The Ghost", makes use of clean vocals and guitar licks that give it at times a flavor more reminiscent of good ol' rock-and-roll than the typical hardcore album.

There isn't a song on the album that isn't likewise full of new ideas. The next track, "Nice and Blue", hides haunting backup vocals below expressive guitar riffs and even more expressive vocals ("I was once alive when you held me!...When you held me..."). "Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt" is an unusual, almost ambient-feeling mix of sounds that, around 2:44, suddenly reveals at its center unmistakably desperate lyrics and sounds. So the album continues, through two ambient interludes, even more intense post-hardcore blasts, and a final acoustic song hidden far after the end of "The Cure for Pain".

Then there are the lyrics, polished enough to be unmistakable masterpieces and raw enough to give you the feeling that in writing them the lyricist is brushing against a still-sore wound on his flesh--breakup songs to the last, but not a trace of the trite clichés that many bring to such themes. "My face has changed, but you know it's me--you know by the stillness in my eyes!" screams "Gentlemen"... "I made you so happy and so sad," another one confesses--"which should I be more sorry for?" All of this sung (or rather, spoken) with the emotional but unmelodious tone of Aaron Weiss, whose emotionally unhinged outpourings make this either one of post-hardcore's best albums or its worst, depending how you feel about them. You can glimpse the tenderness of mewithoutYou's later albums on this album in a few places, but more so, this is the most intense album of a band that so far has released not a singe song that was anything short of spectacular.

Yeah...mewithoutYou is simply...incredible. That should suffice but i cannot leave it at that. There style is unlike any band I've heard in a while. Now...I am very very very picky with my musical taste. I absolutely despise punk rock (emo..screamo..whatever is popular these days) I find it insulting that so many people consider these guys punk. They are a little of everything...If I had to describe them..it would be Poetic, Insiteful, amazingling original Rock.

Buy this...and the new one coming out late this year sometime..you won't regret it...

And Aaron is the coolest guy ever..very insiteful and challenging with is convo.. as well as funny as anything....

Josh