Customer Reviews

Quarter After

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I find the freshman release of Quarter after VERY SATISFYING! I'm very puzzled by previous (negative) reviews here at Amazon, and wonder if we listened to the same record!?!

Those who gave this record only a single star obviously are not fans of modern psychedelic music. And to call track 5 "Too Much To Think About" a MIND NUMBING 12 minutes (in a negative sense) misses the point of this song COMPLETELY!! I think "Too Much To Think About" is the stand out recording of this cd!

Much like Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Massacre(who by the way contributes to track 5!) Dominic Campanella has the late 1960's sound down. {If you don't hear the Byrds in his compositions you don't know the Byrds music.} But also like Newcombe Campanella and Quarter After are NOT anachronistic! Campanella has the gift of making modern music sound timeless!

Here are a few names of bands: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Warlocks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Major Stars, (Syd's) Pink Floyd, th Faith Healers, Dead Meadow, the Dandy Warhols...if you like ANY ONE of these bands, I'm sure you'll like this recording as much as I do.

Be brave...buy this cd!

I agree with the other four-and-five-star reviews, here -- are all the people giving this album one star insane? Listening to the wrong album? Enemies of the band with a grudge? Blinkered Brian Jonestown fans who can't accept another band's work? No matter, disregard them: the album is absolutely brilliant. The Quarter After whip up an absolutely righteous pyschedelic steam -- the fuzzed guitars and massed vocals strike *exactly* the place in your heart that the Buffalo Springfield did, or the Quicksilver Messenger Service, or any number of deeply trippy bands-unafraid-to-make-an-unholy-guitar-noise. The songwriting's superb, the singing's great, and the vibe is note-perfect. "The Quarter After" is yet another piece of the Los Angeles Fuzz-Pop puzzle, and one of the best yet. Check it out.

60's rock/pop/garage is an idiom of its own at this point. The sooner people accept this, the sooner they can stop wondering why people still play it. Might as well ask why anyone still writes and plays punk, blues, jazz or ska. If you don't like the style, than you will never appreciate bands like this, just as I don't appreciate hip hop or Justin Timberlake. Just as people who hate jazz probably shouldn't listen to it.

That out of the way, The Quarter After are the real deal. Among many bands who do play 60's style music, they, like their contemporaries The Brian Jonestown Massacre (Anton Newcomb helped worked on this CD, among others) not only sound like it, they are it. By this I mean it's as if they stepped out of the period, fully realized and original. Which means their writing abilities are hands above many. The QA not only sounds like the Byrds and Gene Clark, they rival them. Even better, much like BJM and the 80's paisley underground band Rain Parade, they take the sound and make it their own. They are the cream of the crop. Or is it were? This 2005 release is the only thing I've found by them. A rare gem, if so.

Highly recommeded.

This is terrific psych/prog-oriented rock. Ignore the haters here who obviously either live in the past only and can't hang with mixing genres, or don't really like either psych or prog. Stick to your Marshall Tucker, Ten Years After & Bad Company guys. The Quarter After are great at adding layers of sound into extended pieces, and also at writing shorter, creative rock songs.

I don't know if we are listening to the same cd. None of the tunes are pedestrian. I like BJM, the Paisley bands and am an avid collector of 60's psych and I think this is a fairly decent freshman outing for this band. Their song "Know Me When I'm Gone" is a great Byrds inspired tune and I've been an avid Byrds fan for 43 years (125 cds and counting). Comparing them with BJM is a bit unfair since their influences are not really the same. Also, not to be mean, but at least Quarter After play their instruments in tune (unlike the mostly horrid and out of tune sitar and sitar playing on BJM cds). I know what an in tune sitar sounds like, as I've played one for 25 years. I have this cd and have not been bored by it. It could have been a bit more dynamic, but the pelting that it's gotten here is undeserved. Its a very good debut cd.

I was in a Used CD store and the Quarter After happened to be playing. All at once, myself and two other men, who were old, um, well let's say old enough to know Paul McCartney was in another group before Wings, asked the clerk what was playing. One man asked if this was a new Byrds album and I asked what 60's group was playing. Well, we were both wrong. It was this CD. I purchased it and though it might not warrant repeated playings (the lyrics are tough to hear, it seems like the group worried more about duplicating a sound rather than a message), it is definitely a fun nostalgia trip and made a 30 minute drive all the more enjoyable. Some songs sound like the Byrds, one like the Monkees, and another could have come from the Yardbirds. Upon hearing the first chords of the first song, you will swear this is old music. I suggest you purchase it just for the sense of nostalgia.

I dig the Quarter After live and on record. They are nice outstanding citizens who are dedicated followers of the Revolution effort. If you don't understand, look up the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Too Much to Think About can put you in a trance if you are not careful. It takes you back to 1966 with some Raga-Rock influence. Know Me When I'm Gone is my favorite track on the album. It is modern psychedelia. Dominic's singing is much like Roger McGuinn's. Byrds fans will love the Quarter After. Or any fan of the '60's or good music.

Quarter After is authentic and not cheesy. They do not overdo it. Dominic's 12 String Rickenbacker work is great. Good harmonies too by Rob and various personel.

These other bad reviews are mockeries.

I've enjoyed this amazing record for less than a month now after hearing about the band through other groups such as the Brian Jonestown Massacre (who's leader Anton Newcombe makes a guest appearance here), and I must say I am shocked at the negative reviews given to this album. I (being 17 years of age) am a huge fan of both early groups such as Love, Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Byrds as well as so called 'psychedelic revivalist' bands such as the afore-mentioned B.J.M., Stevenson Ranch Davidians and The Black Angels and I must say that The Quarter After, more than perhaps any other group out there today, can claim to be bringing back the sounds of the sixties.

Between the very Byrds-like harmonies and mix of jangling and fuzzy guitar leads, one could easily assume that they're listening to an authentic 60's west coast record, a mistake which a few of my friends have made. Though other reviews have attacked the group's songwriting, I personally do not see it lacking at all. Many of the songs (Mirror To You, Too Much To Think About) really eat their way into your head with their melodic harmonies and catchy hooks, and you may find yourself humming along to these tunes long after hearing them.

Personally, I am excited to see where this band has to go from here. Most of the modern psychedelic groups today, while being excellent groups, do not echo as much of the actual 60's sound as they may claim, relying more on 90's shoegaze and 80's drone influences to construct their sound. The Quarter After, however, are the real deal.

Anyways, in wrapping up, this is one of the best groups out there today. Don't be dissuaded by the negative reviews and check out the band yourself (as you should always do)!

Granted, the songs are merely platforms for the instruments. The singing's not spectacular. But these guys can play. What puzzles me is the amount of negative reviews here for this disc. They all sound like they were written by the same person. Either someone's got a grudge against a band member or they're so used to digital ear-bleed masterings that this smooth, luxurious mastering job by a guy named Brad Vance isn't fast-food enough for them. Vance brings out the clang of the Rickenbachers and the snap of the tambourines. You can turn this up without the neighbors calling the cops. It sounds that good. I guess not too many people like real-sounding recordings anymore. As close to analog as you can get with digital. If you have a decent system, give this a try. Wait til you hear that bassist. It sounds like he and the band are in the same room as you. Turn this mother up. It's OK. And then turn it up a little more...

The Quarter After's new long player is Brilliant if not death defying psych-rock. Like trapease artists they manouver guitar rock territorry saved for Love, Pink Floyd and The Byrds. All of this album mines out perfect vocal and psych pop that boggles the minds eye and your third eye for that matter. The recording is pristine as well. Really clear bright recordings. Try this CD loud or on headphones and be amazed as to where this music takes you. I happen to have heard that a few stars from the above mentioned influences guested on this CD but are not credited. They played because the music was quote "so authentic I KNEW I had to be a part of it?" unquote. Buy this CD and really turn up, tune out, turn on !!!