Customer Reviews

Someday This Could All Be Yours, Vol. 1

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It's very easy to talk about Jon Congleton as a very exciting producer, or as a mastermind at reinventing the way guitar is played. What should not be eclipsed by those facts is that he's an amazing songwriter. Packed with beautiful dark anthems "Someday this Could All Be Yours (Vol 1)" gives us The Paper Chase's signature gritty yet polished and inventive rock sound. The songs on this record showcase PC's most pop accessible hooks, while not becoming dumbed down artistically in any sense. Want to get into the Paper Chase? Pop this cd in, hit random, and whichever track it lands on you've struck gold. Can't wait for Vol 2!

This is my favorite album of 2009. I've decided that it is my favorite album by this band. Everything I'd wished for on passed albums, like slightly more cohesive songwriting, comes forth on this album. [...]

Not only is the album a mere ten songs long (really guys, are you that lazy?), but it seems as if they have finally allowed themselves to become stale. Their sound on this album tends to be a overly produced and lacks the melody that made me love their past albums. Its obcessed with being dark and lacks ingenuity. The album's lyrics also are ham stringed by a slavish commitment to keeping with the "theme" and sometimes it seems like it was all written within the span of a couple weeks. All the (ten) songs are VERY similar in feel and tone and it gets not only boring after a while but irritating.

Bottom line. Its not a great album. This is coming from a fan too... I sure hope they fix themselves and come out with something better next round.

Without trying to sound like a musical snob, this was -my- favorite album of 2009. Where every song on the album represents a different disaster (I.E. Hurricane, tornado, nuclear explosion), I found it very original, and also like it was finally a coming-together of all of the good parts of their previous endeavors. The signature feedback and offkey playing is still here, but the vocal work is much catchier (If you know the pAper chAse though, you'll know this is a relative description). And more than that, there is less filler on this album than on God Bless Your Black Heart or Now You Are One Of Us (Both solid album). There are still sound clips in the background, but they are shorter and used more at the end of songs to transition into the next ones, as opposed to having three or four sixty second sound bytes on their own. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the album is more melodious, or full, than previously. I'm not sure any of the songs on this album reach the awesome songwriting of Said the Spider To the Fly, but all of the songs as an album are much more consistently good. There are really no weak spots, and once you play it from the beginning, you almost HAVE to listen to it from beginning to end, in order.