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Written by Kierstin Rzeska
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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Brand New
The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Interscope Records
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|  I find it a tad presumptuous that in order to get your hands on any of Brand New’s lyrics off The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me you have to send a dollar to the band, especially because a lot of the time you can’t even hear what’s being sung on this album.
The lines aren’t just blurrier on Brand New’s latest; they’re also heavier with a lot more techno and less of that acoustic coolness that could be found on their last release, Deja Entendu.
Indeed, The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me is no Deja Entendu. The collection of songs recorded between 2005 and 2006 are a deviation from the kind of punk Brand New was once loved for but their path seems to be traceable if not somewhat predictable. See, with 2003’s Your Favorite Weapon’s rebel-without-a-cause punk rock leading nicely into the bitter post-punk sound of Deja Entendu (read Brand New’s peak) it only made sense that The Devil and God picked up right where Entendu left off, carrying into the arduous sounds that were just hinted at before. “Jesus,” is quite ironically, the strongest point on the album. A slow, sad track reeking of the nostalgia that made us love Brand New in the first place. | “Not In The Sun,” is rousing while veering off their usual path. The detour works really well for the band right here, and the song is so full of hysteria that it’s ok you can’t completely understand what singer Jesse Lacey is trying to say. If only this experimentation worked as well for them on the rest of the album. Maybe they’re just trying to keep up with their name.
Alas, none of these songs can be considered even close to awful because, this is Brand New after all. This is just a different Brand New- love ‘em or not. myspace.com/brandnew |
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