Orange Island

• Artist: Orange Island
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• Release Date: October 07, 2003
• Total Time: 41:45
• Type: Contains explicit content, Lyrics are included with the album
• Genre: Rock

Review

Humor is not often associated with the many faces of emo, one reason why that subgenre of music tends to leave cold many listeners who are old enough to drink: teenage angst seems kind of silly after a while. Orange Island singer/songwriter Dave Gorman, however, views himself and his surroundings with a dryly acidic sense of humor that puts over the band's punk-pop tunes with a refreshing sense of irony. (The bitterly anthemic "Oh! How Clintonian of Me," for example, has much more to do with the band's economically depressed hometown of Clinton, MA, than with any former presidents.) Matched to a better-than-average knack for hooky shoutalong choruses and Brendan Dickhaut's memorable guitar riffs, Orange Island also features much better production and tighter arrangements than the band's sometimes muddy and unfocused debut, Everything You Thought You Knew. Orange Island probably won't make the leap to Jimmy Eat World-style mass success (they're just not one-dimensional enough for that), but at the very least, they deserve to become a hip name to drop in the scripts of teenage comedy-dramas. ~ Stewart Mason, Rovi

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