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• Artist: Desert City Soundtrack
• Album: Perfect Addiction
• Label: Deep Elm
• Year of Release: 2005
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2006-10-22

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I've been watching these guys from Portland for a number of years and for some strange reason their emotional rock just hasn't quite caught on. Desert City Soundtrack play a dark style of indie pop. They are one of the only indie rock bands to utilize the piano on pretty much their entire album. Perfect Addiction is a great continuation and building from Funeral Car. Funeral Car was dark but I found this album to be even darker. Tracks like "Watering Hole" could easily push you over the edge with its funeral march tempo. The mood shifts from time to time but Addiction is primarily a dark album. That's OK because they do it very well. On "Let's Throw Knives" Matt Carillo's voice gets a workout near the end as it starts to get aggressive. Not screamo, in fact I wouldn't even call DCS punk or any sort. There is too much dynamics to their music to get lumped in that genre. Think more along the lines of The Twilight Singers (with piano). Cory Gray is become quite the piano player with his lines really standing out and standing up to the test of playing with a rock band like this. I still maintain that Desert City Soundtrack will be one of the best bands that you've never heard of.

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