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Bend to Break

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What a great LP. So different from the sound of TBS. Fred is playing the kind of music he wants to play, and is doing a great job providing us with a great sound for sore ears. Not a bad song on the CD. It rocks from the beginning including a shot out to his home town of Coatesville with Get Out. Great lead in on If I Surrender, perfect for a ringtone. Still rocking with Hate To See You Go, then slowing down for It Isn't Me, picking up again for Complaintor, The Tragedy and I Didn't See. Minnesota rocks in between two more great ballads Empty House and I'll Never Know. Don't Pretend rounds out the CD on a rock note. Clint Stelfox makes an appearance on It Isn't Me playing the piano brilliantly. Clint played with Fred in Breaking Pangaea. This album could be the album that everyone talks about from Foo Fighter and Linkin Park fans to John Mayer and Plain White T fans.

Get it!

Fred is an amazing person. This album is fantastic. And, if you ever get the chance to see The Color Fred live...DO IT!

This is an amazing CD by an amazing group. I heard them open for Dashboard Confessional at a concert and ordered the CD. I was very pleasantly surprised. I highly recommend this CD.

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to see The Color Fred live with Angels & Airwaves. At the show, I wasn't all that impressed. After listening to their album, however, I can say that my previous thoughts about TCF were wrong.

This album isn't amazing. This album isn't bad. It's simply ... well, good. Take it at face value -- don't expect anything, and you won't be disappointed. It's alternative, catchy, and well-written.

What can I say? I'm a fan, now.

What is this? I was expecting some kind of Taking Back Sunday without the lead singer, but instead I got an album that is full of just great rock tracks. The whiny emo of TBS is gone with a mix of mature rock and great songwriting.

There isn't a bad track here. The whole cd is a great listen and each song is obviously done by the same person/group, but they are also decisively different. Every track flows and the package is definitely a good as the sum of it's parts, which is something that cannot be said about a lot of artists.

Some stand out tracks are: Get Out, If I Surrender, Complaintor, Minnesota, I'll Never Know, and Don't Pretend, though the whole album is great. Just don't go in expecting TBS version 2.0 and you will be happy. I was a little shocked when I popped this in, but immediately came to love it. This will be in my rotation for quite some time. Definitely longer than the last TBS release.

Pick this up. You won't regret it.