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Artist: Brand New
Label: DGC/Interscope/Procrastinate Music Traitors
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

170 reviews
Sales Rank: 8946

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4

MPN: 001335702
UPC: 602527169798
EAN: 0602527169798
ASIN: B002KQ5GUQ

Release Date: September 22, 2009
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Tracks:

•	Vices
•	Bed
•	At the Bottom
•	Gasoline
•	You Stole
•	Be Gone
•	Sink
•	Bought a Bride
•	Daisy
•	In a Jar
•	Noro

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Editorial Reviews:

Album Description
Formed in 2000, Brand New - Jesse Lacey, Vincent Accardi, Brian Lane and Garrett Tierney - have established critical acclaim for their innovative and boundary breaking music. The band's head-turning 2001 debut Your Favorite Weapon (Triple Crown Records) was followed by 2003's gold-certified sophomore album Deja Entendu, which Rolling Stone called a "masterpiece" and the New York Times proclaimed "extraordinary." In 2006 the band released their critically acclaimed major-label debut The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (Interscope) and earned raves for yet another chapter in their genre defying career from SPIN, Blender, NY Times, LA Times, and Billboard among others. The band also appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien to perform the hit single "Jesus."

Now the band is set to take us down another path with their defiant new album, Daisy. The new record features a collection of songs produced by longtime friend Mike Sapone and mixed by Dave Sardy (Rage Against the Machine, Cold War Kids, Slayer). Brand New continues to break the mold and in true Brand New form, they delve into new musical territory that will astonish both critics and fans alike.

Album Description
2009 album from the Long Island-based Alt-Rockers. Brand New have earned a huge international cult following and critical acclaim with their previous albums Your Favorite Weapon (2001), Deja Entendu (2003) and The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me (2006). Daisy is a thrilling and sparse Alternative Rock milestone, drawing comparisons with the likes of Biffy Clyro, Thrice, Modest Mouse, Mars Volta, Radiohead and more. The album was started and finished in the basement studio of longtime friend (and sometime unofficial fifth band member) Mike Sapone, and was mixed by Dave Sardy (Oasis, Rage Against The Machine, Cold War Kids).

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brilliant September 3, 2010
JohnDavidIrvine
This is an album for the fans.
All of us who have been with Brand New from the beginning will be very satisfied.
The fans of Brand New are a cult following who listen to the mantra like songs with an almost religious passion.
I seriously feel high when I hear Limousine from their DEVIL and GOD album. It's that hypnotic. So being one of those fans myself, I can honestly say this album did not disappoint. Brand new continues to mature. I was only 12 when Your Favorite Weapon was released and the angsty songs about girls, self doubt, and insecurities struck a chord and felt relatable. If Brand New had simply spent the rest of their careers making albums like your favorite weapon, i would have lost interest. But that's the thing! They do not simply regurgitate albums but evolve with each, filtering their unique style into an ever more concentrated form. I'm 21 now, and Daisy's songs of past friendships, shady dances with the devil, sacrifice, dark sides of unconditional love (at the bottom) questions directed at heaven and, in the end, redemption feel just as relatable for me now as YFW was to a teenager. I love all there albums. Perhaps one can only truly appreciate Brand new having grown with them.
Its an album you can listen to a hundred times and still finnish with a new perspective.
Hope they continue!

1 out of 5 stars

lame July 29, 2010
pissword
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

1) repetative and noisy.

2) i never expected to be SO disappointed in such a great band.

3) i paid 12 dollars for 3 good songs.

5 out of 5 stars

Daisy June 17, 2010
Raymond M. Hull (Napoleon, Ohio, US)
People love to compare the various Brand New albums. It's always "Oh...Deja is better because of this *random personal opinion*" Or... "The Devil and God... is the BEST, blah blah blah!" PEOPLE! You should realize after 4 separate albums (NONE OF WHICH SOUND ALIKE) that their sound is going to change every single time. If you don't like it fine. But don't flame something just because you don't understand it. Some of you have real issues with the album. I'm not speaking to you. Some of these "reviews" are bigger piles of garbage than they CLAIM the album is! It's crazy.

If you don't like the guitar work, cool. I get it.
If you don't like a lot of the strange lyrics..cool. I get it. Vin wrote a lot of the songs on this album.
If you don't like like the lyrics but don't actually take the time to hear the CORRECT words...shut up and listen. You might find that some of those lines that sounded crazy really do make sense...not all the time though :p.

I won't do a song by song review...As I feel this album should be listened to as a whole. At least the first few times. Sit down and listen.

My only qualm with the album is that is doesn't have a good flow like The Devil and God...
That is far from a large complaint for me.

All in all...take the time and listen to this album people. Don't write it off like a few of these other reviewers did...
This album have a 4.5 star rating for a reason! ;)

3 out of 5 stars

Inaccessible March 31, 2010
R. Romano (LI, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Brand New has evolved quite a lot over the years. 'Your Favorite Weapon' was VERY accessible, bordering on pop music, and was probably intended as such. Songs like "Mix Tape" were catchy and full of sing-a-long lyrics. 'Deja Entendu' was somewhat harder to pin down, and not quite as poppy, but still had a radio friendly unit shifter in "The Quiet Things that No One Ever Knows" and still clung a bit to the emo genre. Then came 'The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me', which blew the doors off of what Brand New had been until then. Nearly every track was top notch, the lyrics were a bit dark but still could easily inspire a sing-a-long, and the instrumentation was above and beyond the previous releases. The songs were all full of melody and anger in equal measure, with the lyrics being delivered in about as many shades of displeasure as possible for about an hour of music. While progressively becoming more complex and meaningful, the albums prior to 'Daisy' were all still accessible and capable of inspiring foot tapping and head bobbing. 'Your Favorite Weapon' can be played at a party, 'Deja Entendu' at maybe a small gathering, 'The Devil and God' is hardly the music that puts a room at ease...

...and 'Daisy' is unapologetically morose, meant to be listened to alone. There is no spot where you can really tap your foot and sing along. The lyrics tend to promote depression, and seem to reflect a clinical manifestation of just that. The musicianship is another step forward. Lacey's vocals are great, albeit uninviting. I can't deny that his range is increased and he is filling the new space without feeling forced, and he certainly screams with the best of them (and screams a lot on this album). I have been listening to this CD for months now, on and off, each time trying to find a real holistic appreciation for it. Each time, though, it takes a few spins in my car stereo and then goes back out. No one song really catches me and makes me want to play it again and again. "At the Bottom" is what I consider the most listenable of the songs, and even that is harder to get into than practically any track on 'The Devil and God'. "You Stole" has a great second half. In my opinion, as a whole this is a leap forward in musicianship and vocals, and equally high quality production, but it comes off as inaccessible and rough on the listener.

I'm still putting this album into rotation on my stereo but I can't keep myself from feeling like I am looking for something in this album that I am not going to find. Maybe I am being unfair by trying to find something from past albums in this album, or maybe I just haven't recognized it for what it is, but I have yet to really put it on REPEAT. Tracks like "Be Gone" feel like throwaway filler, much like "Vices". There is no "Jesus" on this album, that's for sure.

This album will hunt you down and bludgeon you to death whereas the other Brand New releases would draw you in and disarm you. If 'The Devil and God' was an album that drowned you, this CD simply beats you with a hammer until your brain is all over the floor.

2 out of 5 stars

Garbage March 15, 2010
David R. Powell (Anchorage, AK USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

This CD does not work for me. I've been a part of Brand New's fan base since Deja Entendu and this is so far removed from that album (which I consider an all-time masterpiece), that it's hard to believe it's recorded by the same band. If this wasn't a Brand New CD, it would have gone in the trash about halfway through track one.

It's lyrically bankrupt, instrumentally sluggish, and overall sounds like a collection of B-sides and outtakes from the previous CD. About the only listenable track is the single, "At The Bottom". I almost like "Sink". It has a nice groove to it but then the screaming and distorted guitars in the chorus destroy it. Beyond those two, there's not one song I can tolerate.

My recommendation would be to not purchase the CD as a whole. Download "At The Bottom" and call it good.

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