Curses

Vanna | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 24, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Epitaph / Ada
• ASIN: B000NQR85Q
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #221,582 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Alarm

2. The Vanishing Orchestra

3. Surgical Tools

4. The Things He Carried

5. Magnetic Knives

6. Trophy Wives

7. Home

8. Country Boys...Goddamn

9. Heavens To Betsy

10. We Ate The House

11. This Map Is Old News

12. You Were Never Loverlier

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars awesome, May 10, 2008

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Andy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Curses (Audio CD)

so sick of people writing novels for reviews... anyway, i like this CD. Some songs are not catchy at all, and aren't very good, but most are. "The Alarm" is BY FAR the best one. They have such a f###ing awesome sound...

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2.0 out of 5 stars Bleh, November 28, 2008

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RaisedOnSpitalfield "Exit 27 is for lovers" ((South) Medford, Oregon 5-4-1) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Curses (Audio CD)

Vanna, the post-hardcore outfit from Boston, first caught my attention with their EP The Search Party Never Came. I wasn't impressed, but I did feel like there was some potential that could have been harnessed and put to good use on the follow-up. Sadly, that didn't happen with Curses. Although a couple of the songs here are decent (The Things He Carried is quite catchy), the album as a whole sounds like it was put out by a band with an identity crisis. At times, Vanna do a decent impression of AoF or even Hawthorne Heights. Other times, they do their best to ape The Chariot. The problem is that the bands they mimic have already done what they are doing, and better. I must admit, I'm bias against the noisy crapcore that bands like The Chariot put out, but I do like melodic hardcore, so I feel like I gave this a fair shot and reviewed as such. There isn't anything here that hasn't already been done, and much better. And if you're a pop inclined post-hardcore listener (like me), you probably wouldn't like anything here anyway.