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5.0 out of 5 stars
Today is Tomorrow, February 21, 2003
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"While their four song cassette sold at shows last year was a slice of pure pop heaven, their new disc is heavenly sedated. Tempos wax and wane, feedback changes to melody, this dream is never sleepy. Theirs is the world of the layered, simple yet somehow so big, pop song." - Jill Langer, FANZ Magazine, Spring '96"Call it spacey noise, tell them that they rock with all the fury of bands like Smashing Pumpkins and with all the mellower splendor of fellow-scenesters Low, leaving them somehow comparable to Ivy or Medicine, but somehow not even close. But whatever you do, don't call it dream pop...February is a band that understands the way your feeling so well, they wrote six songs about it and put out a CD just for you." - Dan LaMere, Kamikaze Magazine, 1996 "...they're waking from a dreamy four month hibernation that must have induced their self-release Even The Night Can't Tell You From A Star. I can't tell february from stars either; their first cassette and 7-inch alone have helped build a rabid, all-age following. Is it their youthful recharge of the dream-pop non genre, their intimate but explosive stage chemistry, or the angelic vocals of their lead singer?" - Simon Peter Groebner, City Pages, 2/14/96 "Minneapolis' February plays an evocative brand of dream pop that winds itself around singer Amy Turany's voice and Damian Neubauer's impressive, impressionistic guitar work for a sound that's part Sundays, part Bettie Serveert and part cool listening bliss." - Chicago's New City, 11/2/95 "February is the band dreams are made of. Each song shimmers with an ebbing and flowing of guitar awash in a beautiful landscape of drums, bass, and vocals which allow you to escape to another world. I recently had the chance to see this band live (twice actually), and they're able to bring the sound of their studio work into the live arena. To be blunt, this band rules. Alot." - Tim Schloe, Cake Magazine, 1995
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Dancy Trancy Atmospheric Syrup, February 21, 2003
By A Customer
"February is one of the most wonderful living contradictions I've ever come across, a collision of ambient music and driving rock that I'd previously thought impossible. Trippy, moody and even playful."
-Squealer on "Even The Night..."The Minneapolis quartet February follow-up their tremendous, self-released debut cd Even The Night Can't Tell You From A Star (which has already sold 3000 copies) with their first album from Carrot Top Records that has so far eclipsed any expectations that we don't even know where to begin. While the band bristles at the term, their sound has been pigeonholed as Dreampop. Tomorrow Is Today leaps beyond Even the Night... on many fronts and ultimately makes the dreampop tag irrelevant. The ethereal reverie of their debut effort does carry over to Tomorrow but more often that not it falls in layers over frequently uptempo dancey beats and even some flat out rock songs that remind of everything from Eno to U2 to Love and Rockets. The precision, almost mechanical, drumming of Todd Reubold, with occasional jungley machine rhythms, and rock solid, loping bass lines of Steve Saari anchor every number and provide the foundation for the extraordinary, cosmic guitar work of Damian Neubauer. Disembodied shards of noise caught in frenzied, whirling torrents carry February into deep space. And through all the dexterous rhythms and cosmic noise, there shines the siren voice of Amy Turany who draws you in and envelopes you in the warmth of each passing moment with soothing songs of dreams, erotica and longing. February are: atmospheric syrup, trancey pop, spacey mayhem, enrapturing enchantment, erotic noise.
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