We Are Amatuers, You and I

Haywood

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 9, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Self-Starter Records
• ASIN: B000063KR3
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #602,769 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

We Are Amateurs, You and I is the third and final offering from Haywood, a New York-based group that imploded before this last batch of songs was released. Although the CD is rich with stripped-bare emotions and padded with soaring vocal harmonies, it's hard to make a plea for the band's continuation after listening to this disc, which never establishes itself far enough outside of its influences. Haywood starts out midtempo, crouching close to Replacements/Pavement territory, and then slams on the brakes, sounding like a gloomy Modest Mouse/Built to Spill combo. By the latter half of We Are Amateurs, Haywood is really in a downward spiral, wallowing in an indie-rock no man's land and creating sad, dreamy melodies that sound like the millions of other bleeding-heart indie bands crying for attention. Unfortunately for Haywood, this disc is a schizophrenic span of emotions that's left well enough alone, unless you're really craving more tortured-soul emo sung with a postbreakdown shakiness. --Jennifer Maerz

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Only the best band you've never heard of., April 12, 2009

By	Edward Batista (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In a fair and just world, Ted Pauly and his comrades from Haywood would be recognized as pop-punk geniuses. Here on Earth, I'm just grateful for the handful of brilliant songs they recorded a decade or so ago.