L'ultimo disco l'apprezzabile "In Search Of Solid Ground" è del 2009, successivamente la band visto lo split dal cantante Cove Reber, è andata alla ricerca, senza esiti per ora di un nuovo vocalist ufficiale, sebbene di volta in volta la stampa accreditatava questo o quel singer.
Tillian Parson, con cui la band ha anche registrato un interessante demo quest'anno (Promises), sembrava
essere il prescelto, salvo smentite circa l'ingresso come membro ufficiale nella band. Sebbene il citato si dichiari gran fan e amico della band e avrebbe il piacere di suonare con loro.
Di un terzo disco di inediti di parla da tempo, anche se la sensazione è che se dovesse vedere la luce, passerà ancora del tempo.
Approfittando di questo stallo, qual miglior occasione per riavvolgere il nastro e parlare del primo ed amatissimo dai fan ep "Translanting The Name".
Venuto alla luce in un periodo in cui l'emocore di terza ondata stava prendendo piede negli States e con una formazione diversa da quella attuale con i soli Justin Shekoski e Beau Burchelle che fanno ancora parte dell'attuale line-up e con Anthony Green (ora nei Circa Survive) dietro il microfono, questo rapido ep è una buona fotografia instantanea della salute che aveva il genere nel 2003.
I primi quattro pezzi sono sullo stesso livello, difficile sceglierne uno che svetti sugli altri.
La formula non ancora abusata per l'epoca era quella di creare contrasti sonori all'interno del medesimo pezzo, facendo convivere dolci e sognanti versi (peculiarità ella band riscontrabile anche dei 2 successivi lp sebbene il cambio di genere avvenuto già dal s/t), con brusche sterzate emotive all'altezza dei ritornelli.
Nella versione aggiornata troviamo anche "Mookies Last Christmas" e le versione acustiche di "Third Measurement In C" e "Seven Years" qui spogliate di quell'enfasi elettrica che caratterizza le originali.
Un lavoro veloce che tuttavia cela al suo interno qualità, che aprirà la strada alla carriera dei cinque di Newport Beach.
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01 Seven Years (03:12)
taking on seven years that the holy ghost had left alone
test my arms, kick like crazy, I've been trying way too long,
if he could only push his way off and fight you
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not sure
Getting this off my chest, the story ends.
I would find a way without
Tell him his eyes see too clear
I would find a way without you
Tell him his eyes see too clear
That mistakes were golden and life
without you, is something that I could never do
that was right, staple the eyes and seven dates for me to
sell machines and tear on
seven years, you assured me that I'd be fine if I complied
if he could only push his way off and fight you,
Now I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not sure
Getting this off my chest, the story ends.
I would find a way without
Tell him his eyes see too clear
I would find a way without you
Tell him his eyes see too clear
That mistakes were golden and life
without you, is something that I could never do
that was right, .... for me to
sell machines and tear on
don't treat me I'm to blame (I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm not sure)
don't treat me like I ever accused you (Tell him his eyes see too clear) [x6]
02 Translating the Name (03:26)
Oh start, send me grieves and before breathing
I have your voice on tape in a southern accent screaming at me
I was only one and we weren’t prepared for one (before dreaming)
I have your voice on tape in a southern accent screaming at me
Know things look lovely to you
Holding back, now and forever sweetheart
know things look lovely
lonely boy, it’s midnight and I’ll deny
You were walking so peculiar (still so deadly)like you had something to hide
Sweet penance for a sound - it might explode in our hands
Bordered in a brown pigmentation ahh
Where the element guards cut short, turned in and stopped
I've been watching rose giving in and I wish that I could Taper away so
I've been watching rose give in to it severing the ties between mother and son
Know things look lovely to you
Holding back, now and forever sweetheart
know things look lovely
hoping for midnight and I deny
You were walking so peculiar like you (still so deadly) had something to hide
Sweet penance for a sound - it might explode in our hands (it might explode)
oh, I once saw many place the end, I promised the world and a dozen roses.
03 3rd Measurement in C (02:38)
taken back overdone
free a safety
souvenirs out of style
(right in front and right on)
you do it so I’ll be mad
you’ll be gone
enough said about you been golden
in my veins
tango with daddy means separate only
smile my only rites of passage
only you mark my words
(upon the stage you get on)
to get engaged in california
enough said about you been golden
in my veins
tango with daddy means separate only
smile my only rites of passage
don’t say that I’m the one you want to lose (x4)
04 Lost Symphonies (02:55)
To install the notion that I divided by I
replace the occasion to speak
I'm not the only lonely boy...
Until I decide to take my watch off, I'll still believe that we
we're just a matter of time, still getting older everyday
(shout for shout sake)
Siren siren, don't do this dance in my ear,
In fact I've already lost him once
I do a deadly dance and all I've asked for so little
I've already lost him
If I decide to sever the plates below
the shore would separate and find only seven placed again.
Until I decide to take my watch off, I'll still believe that we
we're just a matter of time, still getting older everyday
(shout for shout sake)
Siren siren, don't do this dance in my ear,
In fact I've already lost him once
I do a deadly dance and all I've asked for so little
In fact I've already lost him
before commemorating I hope you still believe
before commemorating ten feet tall and seperate the bow
before commemorating I hope you still believe
before commemorating ten feet tall and seperate the bow
before commemorating I hope you still believe
(if i decide to sever the plates below, the shore would seperate and find only seven plates again oh i hope you still believe)
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