This Equals Everything

Artist: National Skyline
Label: File 13
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 644110983626
EAN: 0644110983626
ASIN: B00005B67P

Release Date: 2001-05-15

This Equals Everything

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Tracks:

Some Will Say
Reinkiller
A Million Circles
Day On The Beach
Morse Code
A Night At The Drugstore
Make It Stop
Cadence Of Water
The Look
Grandstanding

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Customer Reviews:

There's a ladder ahead...........2005-03-08

I really expected more from this album. I had heard the song "October" from the Exit Now Ep and loved it. I will admit they did create a unique atmosphere on this album, it feels like you are awake at 3 a.m in the middle of a city somewhere. But at times, I just feel the music is a little boring. If you crave heavy guitar and active vocals, this isn't for you. Jeff Garber and Jeff Dimpsey do have nice voices though. Still worth a listen though, if you are a fan of the members previous bands.

This=Greatness.......2001-07-06

This is the best release of the year, by far. James Minor is the sexiest man I've ever seen. Just listen to him play that guitar. The noise you hear when he slides his fingers across the strings as he changes chords is incredibly arousing. You won't find a better band or a sexier man, anywhere. Ever.

Interesting diversion from an unfulfilled promise.......2001-05-31

So now National Skyline have thrown in the towel on "rock", trading in guitar strings for floppy disks and squeezing out yet another artsy "subhumanoid" image for their record cover, this one of an anonymously bland and fluorescent-lit tunnel, which seems to fit the humdrum and monotonous music within. Like a whirring synthetic mechanized noise somewhere in the distance, their tastefully morose drumbeats lull you into a noontime snooze, awakened only by track's end like someone kicked the plug out of your stereo. It's only when the songs are over that you recognize they were there at all. The entire package sounds contrived, artificial, and programmed. Which, of course, is enough to send many of you clicking away on your shopping carts.

But for me, it's a sad case of an unfulfilled expectation that arose with the track "October" on the "Exit Now" EP. The magnitude of those harmonies and hope resonant in that one track (as well as many others, but that one was the strongest of their meager catalog) kept me circling the release date of this full-length. But what could have been smashing is merely entertaining: the music on this album seems uninspired, placidly unchallenging, and goes nowhere. Song construction has been reduced to a repeated synth track, a ticky-ticky drum machine, and the ocassional throb of a sampled electronic vibe here and there. The vocal glides over the smoothness with an annoyingly breathy "sensual" quality that was previously tolerable but now annoyingly derivative of such trendy "quiet" bands like Mojave 3 (make no mistake however: despite the vocal similarity, National Skyline ain't no Mojave 3).

Unbelievably disappointing and pleasantly mediocre, this album could have been a summer highlight but instead is a dud extraordinaire.

Not quite everything, but close.......2001-05-28

National Skyline's full-length debut puts together all the quintessential elements of post-rock: programmed drum tracks, a Yorke-like lead singer, the floaty guitar riffs angels might play in rock's after-life; certainly not the usual fair you'd expect from Jeff Dimpsey, a former member of Illinois' alterna-metal troupe Hum. While Hum's 'I'd Rather be an Astronaut' is indie rock for intelligent metalheads, 'This=Everything' is the kind of emotionally ambitious album soundtrack producers look for to highlight the crushing solitude of urban sprawl. And clocking in at just under 41 minutes, the road to Skyline's self-discovery is a short one; fortunately, it keeps the music - and the emotion - just a little bit more honest.

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