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We Have Something to Celebrate
Stand Up Get Down
Reviewed by: John-Michael Bond [Mon, April 30, 2007 @ 5:18:02 PM]
Stand Up Get Down’s debut album We Have Something to Celebrate is overflowing with a fresh creativity sorely missing from the current crop of bands sitting on top of the music scene. I’m not talking hooks or catchy choruses, I’m talking about musical exploration. Taking the basic structure of a pop song and twisting it into something more is something the bands obvious influences (take your pick from Dismemberment Plan, The Promise Ring, The Unicorns or a host of others) have left imbedded in the young groups brain.
The frothy mix of twisting guitars and dancing drums with prolonged fuzz pop jams gives WHStC a sound straight out of a lost late 90’s Dischord or Jade Tree band. If there is one thing I can fault the band for its being a tad overly ambitious and trying a few too many tricks on their first record. This debut itself is tops but there are times where the exploration feels like exploration for explorations sake. Then again so few bands are exploring this sound right now, so I’d be lying if I said this really bothered me too much. As a fan of this sound whose missed having new records to listen to (seriously Q and Not U did you have to break up?), We Have Something to Celebrate is a gift from the heavens. Would this record have been a classic with the class of ’01? Maybe not. But to the class of ’07, whose big break out band is Cute is What We Aim For perhaps, just perhaps, these guys will lit a fire under the ass of a new generation. We can only pray.
8.5 out of 10
RIYL: The Promise Ring, Dismemberment Plan or Q and Not U
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