In Small Rooms

• Artist: Disband
• Rating:
• Release Date: August 26, 2003
• Type: Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

Is it okay to say "traditionalist indie rock"? If so, the non-term applies well to Chapel Hill's Disband, who have a healthy hankering for the early '90s on In Small Rooms, their first official full-length for Ernest Jenning (they did a split with labelmates Kudzu in 2002). Guitar-crammed tracks like "Big Wait" and "Capture the Flag" revel in half-time jags and squalls as vocalist Greg Collins shouts and wavers his opaque poetics ("I do all the things that you ask me not to do", from "Flag"). The lively "Basement Life" could have followed Polvo's "Channel Changer" on a dorm room mix tape in 1992 - it even name checks Archers of Loaf's era-defining Icky Mettle. The similarities in guitar tone and structure continue throughout In Small Rooms, with "Un-American" and "Where's My Rocket" emerging as later standouts. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
The Big Wait	Disband	Disband	(4:28)
Dimmer	Disband	Disband	(4:22)
Capture the Flag	Disband	Disband	(2:32)
Basement Life	Disband	Disband	(4:33)
Un-American	Disband	Disband	(4:41)
The Worst Kisser in the World	Disband	Disband	(3:59)
Some Sunsets	Disband	Disband	(4:34)
Bears Will Kill You	Disband	Disband	(8:09)
Baby, Your Love Makes Me Want to Write My Congressman	Disband	Disband	(5:19)
Where's My Rocket	Disband	Disband	(5:54)
Past This Town	Disband	Disband	(5:42)

Credits

Disband (Producer), Brian (Photography), Mike Albanese (Producer), Brian (Band), Roger Seibel (Mastering)