Sound The Alarm - Saves the Day
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64 out of 100

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7.8 out of 10

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  • Summary: The New Jersey emo-punk band's first album in three years marks a return to indie label Vagrant after a brief stint on a major label.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Alternative Press
    80
    In simplest terms, this is emotional catharsis put to pop music. And it sounds fucking great. [Jun 2006, p.174]
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    It's as turgidly epic as the tenets of the genre demand. [14 Apr 2006, p.84]
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  3. Q Magazine
    60
    It's hardly revolutionary and nothing eclipses their finest career moment At Your Funeral, but there's nothing too wrong here. [Jun 2006, p.118]
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  4. PopMatters
    30
    Saves the Day have given their fans nothing exciting, innovative, or new.

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  1. [Anonymous]
    10
    yes
  2. Michael
    8
    I appreciate that each Saves the Day album sounds different than the last. I feel that the band has continued on an upward climb since they first started with Can't Slow Down. Sound the Alarm is certainly a change; I would call it maturing. I enjoy the sound a lot, but I feel that the lyrics have suffered in this outing. They went for more standard rhyming structures rather than the stream-of-consciousness format of their earlier recordings. Overall, a satisfying album that I will keep in my car and listen to probably on a regular basis.… Expand
  3. Gary
    8
    This is a good album, but the lyrics are overly violent and in almost every song chris sings about hurting himself or wanting to kill himself etc. This brings the album down. The sound is much darker and heavier than In Reverie but is still pretty clever musically and is still pretty catchy.… Expand
  4. Andy
    7
    A solid effort, although it doesn't come close to the effort put forth on In Reverie, where it sounded like they were trying to shake the pop-punk-emo feel for straigh-up pop. Here, they are back to the punk-emo sound and although we've heard it a thousand times already, they do it better than 99% of the other derivative MTV2 bands out there.… Expand

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