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Don't Let Your Guard Down:
Critic's Review
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| Artist: Downtown Singapore |
| Release Date: Mar 7, 2006 |
| (Original Release Date: Feb 21, 2006) |
| Label: D-Cide Records |
| Genre: Rock |
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On their first (and apparently last, since the band "went on hiatus" shortly after its release) full album, suburban Maryland emo kidz Downtown Singapore stay comfortably in an increasingly well-worn groove. Anyone who liked Jimmy Eat World and the Get Up Kids will, well, "love" is way too strong a word for this catchy but utterly undistinguished album. "Find comfortably familiar" is closer to the mark, and that's exactly the problem. Downtown Singapore's take on the poppy-punky side of emo ranges from entirely competent to occasionally inspired -- "Clean Getaway" has a fine, surging chorus, and "Toy Soldiers and Hand Grenades" ends with a massed vocal bit that's surprisingly reminiscent of Queen -- and lead singer Jerry Scott steers clear of most of the genre's most annoying vocal tics (like the "I'm so frickin' sensitive" angst-wail), but at the album's end, nothing sticks with the listener. Don't Let Your Guard Down may eventually be seen as a harbinger of emo's final trailings into irrelevance, assuming that it's remembered at all. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
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