Customer Reviews

Flee the Scene

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I feel that I've reached the point where I've heard what most would characterize as an excessive amount of music, and this isn't bad, but at the same time, it just doesn't do anything for me. The songs aren't very complex or original and neither are the vocals or lyrics. The songs are just kind of "there," rather than anything special. I saw that other people bought albums by the likes of June and Cartel and I would say that those bands are both lightyears ahead of this one. Maybe with time they'll get better and find a more original sound, but they haven't found that yet.

Pretty safe and polished pop punk type of band. I bought this cd and found some the older stuff and gave it all a good listen. It is certainly good music. However there is not really a standout track or two that I hear that will make the radio to make this album a hit or bring more attention to this band. They sound as good as a lot of other similar type of bands, but unlike Simple Plan, Blink 182, Sum 41, or Green Day
which had some great songs in the early albums, Southcott falls a bit short. This one is not the album that is going to get them to the top.

a good pop punk cd and dont listen to the idiot below me he gave deja by brand new 2 stars so i think hes insane

I just picked up their latest release, "Flee the Scene", and I was blown away by the tracks. You can sample their music at purevolume.com/southcott. I'd consider it a must-have.

At a time when I thought Amercan popular music was dead, along comes a band with the curious name, "Southcott". This is truly one of the best new groups I have heard in quite some time. Excellently produced, they compose music that I think has the potential to become true rock 'n' roll classics. The vocals, lyrics and musicianship of this great new band are, far and away, superior to the overwhelming majority of their contemporaries. I have a feeling that Southcott is here to stay. I hope I'm right.

Tom Degan

"Safe, predictable and generic pop-rock done wrong". That's what the critics SHOULD be saying about southcott and their disaster of a debut "flee the scene", but they're not (surprise, surprise). In this day and age of myspace and purevolume, pretty much anyone can buy themselves studio time and a musicians profile...it doesn't mean you have any talent, which is evident in the case of Southcott. So why don't they take their own advise and "flee the scene"? Who knows.

Flee The Scene? I hope they're not talking about the generic overproduced commercial power-pop emo drivel scene, because these guys would be lost without it. They're more like Something Corporate and Self Against City than Taking Back Sunday or The Used, so they're not as bad as some other clueless poser stuff out there, but this is still clueless poser stuff. The music is mostly just safe and harmless, as always it's the forced robotic vocals that really ruin it. What this guy does really can't be called singing, it's more like mimicing a clock-radio alarm.