Don't Forget to Breathe

A Static Lullaby | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ferret Records
• ASIN: B00007L4Q3
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (104 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,786 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ROCK ON!, February 7, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Don't Forget to Breathe (Audio CD)

This CD is AMAZING. Its about time a band has created this CD! My favorite song is "A sip of wine chased with cyanide." SPOON OUT MY HEART!!! How can it get any better than that? Every song is diverse, no blah blah verse chorus verse chorus sorta thing. Enough hooks but never enough to become annoying. But I'm sure you're all thinking, "Sure YOU like them, but I dont know anything about you or what you think is good music." Hm ok well Ill try to help you out. Do you like From Autumn to Ashes? Atreyu? Senses Fail? Funeral For a Friend? Then I think youll like A Static Lullaby. However, if you like Shadows Fall, Avenged Sevenfold, Norma Jean, I am pretty sure you wont like this CD. And if youre a diehard Dashboard, Brand New, Yellowcard, The Starting Line (gag me) kinda kid, then I advise you to stay away. The screaming will make you cringe. Well then i hoped that helped in your decision!!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a convert, July 10, 2003

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"cartalien" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Forget to Breathe (Audio CD)

Like most people I always kinda avoided screaming music, what ever you want to call it. But after seeing these guys live and buying the CD right away I totally changed my mind. I really really love this CD. Every song has such a different and wonderful sound. I even got used to and like the screaming in this band, it goes well with the tunes and the way the vocals can go from screaming to melodic singing is just amazing. Theres no real way to describe it.
My advice: download a song or two, If you like it...fantastic, great, buy the CD right away and you won't regret it ...and if you dont like it, no big deal thats cool too, just dont go another day with out at least giving them a try.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2003s Unequaled Album, November 11, 2003

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Sixto Limiac (I Don't Know!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Forget to Breathe (Audio CD)

When I was 14 my first favorite band was NOFX. Before I could fight it, inner self destruction wracked me mentally. I sought to be spiritually lifted. Music is everything I have come to know, an intangible force which empowers life as I know it. It is beyond a simple-minded ethos, it is what I just said it was, everything. At 16 I discovered an unrivaled masterpiece, The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused. My spiritual prerequisite became fulfilled. Now 19 and choosing to be the loser of all losers, I hunt for a cure to quell self-growing hate. During my quest I found the impossible. Refused has come close to being dethroned. Slightly below the almighty musicians is my new emotional succor -- A Static Lullaby.

Perhaps its me or maybe my perception is all twisted and gnarled like Death's fingers, but A Static Lullaby makes everything in the world seem so right. Their debut album captivates the worthless existence that I am. And that's saying a whole lot. The might of their musicianship effortlessly surpasses all others. As the year ends, no other band has the right to argue that they have marked a groundbreaking achievement as much as A Static Lullaby does. "Don't Forget to Breathe," is simply 2003's unequaled album.

Almost everyday of every hour I have listened to their raucous intensity. I cling onto their music as I have come to the realization that I have undergone a change that is both surprising and inspiring. Consequentially, I pray for such changes to break out within the entire music spectrum. If music is supposed to awakened deep emotions, summon personal vendettas, or give flight to an energetic mosh, then this has done two things. It has accomplish its first standard and secondly, it has pushed the standards even further.

Their music naturally gears toward the hardcore. But I have to persuade you to look beyond that. What you have here is an immeasurable passion that will suck you into an emotional vacuum while it tightens its delightfully cold grip on you. Then march beyond your claim that this is "another typical screamfest." So much more bleeds behind the album, and if you still cannot see this then you are truly blind. During my initial listen, I did not search for that one "right" track, instead I played through it over and over again. Each song is equally stunning as the next one. Besides Refused's ultimate work, I haven't felt this compelled to inform the world what they are missing.

So much is thrown at you and don't bother to ask it to stop. It doesn't. Falling as melodic hardcore, the band is a damn enchanting comfort. With original musicianship and unrivaled skill, they have summed up to be an icon to follow. As evidence of genuine talent, some of their songs were even crafted before they were signed. Each song is deep and drives the album hard. You can easily differentiate the other ballads which were produced when they were signed. The entire quality behind it rumbles with plenty of loud and infectious songs. I can't help but shriek my heart aloud, I smash the air with their words in my mouth. And I thought I`ve heard all the deadliest cries from the hardcore. I was wrong. Here it is, toppling everything in its path. And I beg for more! It has me marveling how musicians near my age are so gifted, its just gripping. This is a medicine to a world I can`t stand. With all the black in your own world, you think no one could possibly express as much, but A Static Lullaby does. I literally experience their palpable fury, anger, and misery. If the Emo genre needed a band to represent their turf, A Static Lullaby would be most qualified.

You become a rag doll and you will succumb to the ear-piercing wrath of intimidation and heavier invigoration. Varying his guttural bawls with melodic wisps, the vocalist is brilliantly grotesque and all the more charming. The guitars crunch hard and scorch the air endlessly. What makes the band's unique sound undeniably original are the rage behind the lead and rhythm guitarists. Not to mention the profoundly pounded drums. And with that, the hardened touch of the bass booming the background is a jarring force to be reckoned with. Each individual in A Static Lullaby flawlessly spark the blazing fire they feed on. "Predictable Guitars," ha-ha-ha, yeah right. . . They are an unrivaled flair!

And it doesn't stop there. Their words are earnestly deep and push out a barrage of emotion. Layered by passion and admirably written, the lyrics are the direct reflection of the singer's chutzpah. Its obvious that the frontman floods his everything into his words, and all of which are appropriately executed. "Don't Forget to Breathe," is just the beginning of A Static Lullaby. Still maturing into the mess that is adulthood, I will not be surprised if their next CD spawns an even greater weight of ferocity and captivation. They are as rare as Refused and the dire need for a spiritual connection between music and sanity proliferates. They are a pillar of modern "sing/scream music."

I am the proud owner of such masterwork within the Hardcore/Emo equilibrium, and I trust you are too.