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Rating: 
- Absolutely awful compared to their earlier work
If you're looking for the SoCo sound of Ready...Break!, Leaving Through The Window, or Audioboxer, this is not for you.
"North" does nothing more than predict Andrew McMahon's betrayal of SoCo's fans... it sounds like Jack's Mannequin, not SoCo.
In my opinion, Andrew's vocal and piano style doesn't fit the darker, more serious mood of "North" or the Jack's Mannequin material. It sounds very forced.
Rating:
- a masterpiece...
North is an album that is an acquired taste. As an avid Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin fan, I certainly did not love North when I first listened to it, but after a while I began to appreciate what a masterpiece it truly is. It just is different than previous Something Corporate albums, but might be the best (although I do love Ready...Break too). The highlights of the album for me are: "Me and the Moon", "Down", "Miss America", "Ruthless", and a bonus track on international albums "Watch the Sky" (which I consider to be one of my top 3-5 Something Corporate songs of all time. You can get the three bonus tracks as downloads ("Watch the Sky", "This Broken Heart", and "Unravel"--a Bjork cover) from www.soco-online.net. Other notable tracks are the single "Space", "Only Ashes", and "She Paints Me Blue". This is just a fantastic album that should not be considered a disappointment, as it was called by reviewers when it first came out. Instead one can certainly see this as a bridge between Andrew McMahon's transition from Something Corporate to Jack's Mannequin.
Rating:
- Okay
Not as good as Leaving Through The Window. Most of the songs get boring fast. The best song is 21 and Invincible.
Rating: - The Same, Yet Pleasingly Different
`North' is the sophomore offering from Dana Point, CA punk/pop quintet Something Corporate. This album is everything the first album was, and conversely everything the first album was not. The music remains catchy and hook-laden, mostly built around the very capable musical and lyrical abilities of pianist/frontman Andrew McMahon. `North', however, is more sombre, more introspective, and more grown-up than `LTTW'. The lyrics tend to be more poignant and cynical, and the tone of the album is generally somewhat darker than their previous release - thanks in no small part to the fact that it was recorded during a dismal time of the year in Seattle. By no way does that mean the album is of lesser quality than the first - in fact, this is a much better body of work. The writing is much more intricate and mature, the lyrical lows are more gut-wrenching and the lyrical highs feed the soul much more than the first album. The songwriting talents of guitarist Josh Partington come more to the forefront as he contributes four tracks to the album including the first official single, "Space". In all, while the first album might be called a "fun" album or a "party" album, this is much more representative of the potential of the band, and should go a long way to segregating them from the slough of So-Cal "punk" knock-off bands that seem to be everywhere these days. That's not to say there aren't a couple of fist-pumpers on this one though - `Space' will be sure to be heard on dance floors across North America, and '21 & Invincible' is a cynical anthem to young adulthood. These are counterweighted with the lovely `Me And The Moon', a questioning look at mental breakdown spawned by an article McMahon read about a woman murdering her husband, and `Miss America', yet another lament for the intense stress that being on the road places on a relationship.
Having a decent producer in Jim Wirt has definitely paid dividends here - production quality on this album is better, much better than `Leaving Through The Window'. The musicianship has improved, and so has the vocal quality. This disc is everything I expected it to and to my pleasant surprise, much that I didn't expect it to be.
Rating:
- Soco rocks, but this doesn't beat leaving through the window
SoCo is still my favorite band and this album is definately wroth owning, it's just that leaving through the window is still my favorite. North just doesn't have the same charm.
- Absolutely awful compared to their earlier workIf you're looking for the SoCo sound of Ready...Break!, Leaving Through The Window, or Audioboxer, this is not for you.
"North" does nothing more than predict Andrew McMahon's betrayal of SoCo's fans... it sounds like Jack's Mannequin, not SoCo.
In my opinion, Andrew's vocal and piano style doesn't fit the darker, more serious mood of "North" or the Jack's Mannequin material. It sounds very forced.
Rating:
- a masterpiece...North is an album that is an acquired taste. As an avid Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin fan, I certainly did not love North when I first listened to it, but after a while I began to appreciate what a masterpiece it truly is. It just is different than previous Something Corporate albums, but might be the best (although I do love Ready...Break too). The highlights of the album for me are: "Me and the Moon", "Down", "Miss America", "Ruthless", and a bonus track on international albums "Watch the Sky" (which I consider to be one of my top 3-5 Something Corporate songs of all time. You can get the three bonus tracks as downloads ("Watch the Sky", "This Broken Heart", and "Unravel"--a Bjork cover) from www.soco-online.net. Other notable tracks are the single "Space", "Only Ashes", and "She Paints Me Blue". This is just a fantastic album that should not be considered a disappointment, as it was called by reviewers when it first came out. Instead one can certainly see this as a bridge between Andrew McMahon's transition from Something Corporate to Jack's Mannequin.
Rating:
- OkayNot as good as Leaving Through The Window. Most of the songs get boring fast. The best song is 21 and Invincible.
Rating:
- The Same, Yet Pleasingly Different`North' is the sophomore offering from Dana Point, CA punk/pop quintet Something Corporate. This album is everything the first album was, and conversely everything the first album was not. The music remains catchy and hook-laden, mostly built around the very capable musical and lyrical abilities of pianist/frontman Andrew McMahon. `North', however, is more sombre, more introspective, and more grown-up than `LTTW'. The lyrics tend to be more poignant and cynical, and the tone of the album is generally somewhat darker than their previous release - thanks in no small part to the fact that it was recorded during a dismal time of the year in Seattle. By no way does that mean the album is of lesser quality than the first - in fact, this is a much better body of work. The writing is much more intricate and mature, the lyrical lows are more gut-wrenching and the lyrical highs feed the soul much more than the first album. The songwriting talents of guitarist Josh Partington come more to the forefront as he contributes four tracks to the album including the first official single, "Space". In all, while the first album might be called a "fun" album or a "party" album, this is much more representative of the potential of the band, and should go a long way to segregating them from the slough of So-Cal "punk" knock-off bands that seem to be everywhere these days. That's not to say there aren't a couple of fist-pumpers on this one though - `Space' will be sure to be heard on dance floors across North America, and '21 & Invincible' is a cynical anthem to young adulthood. These are counterweighted with the lovely `Me And The Moon', a questioning look at mental breakdown spawned by an article McMahon read about a woman murdering her husband, and `Miss America', yet another lament for the intense stress that being on the road places on a relationship.
Having a decent producer in Jim Wirt has definitely paid dividends here - production quality on this album is better, much better than `Leaving Through The Window'. The musicianship has improved, and so has the vocal quality. This disc is everything I expected it to and to my pleasant surprise, much that I didn't expect it to be.
Rating:
- Soco rocks, but this doesn't beat leaving through the windowSoCo is still my favorite band and this album is definately wroth owning, it's just that leaving through the window is still my favorite. North just doesn't have the same charm.