Tracklist

01. Intro

02. Sirens

03. Waiting

04. Never Get Enough

05. Ignore The Noise

06. Ordinary

07. Matter Of Time

08. Truth Is

09. Whitewater

10. Shine

11. Avalanche

12. Chef Yan

13. Partner In Crime

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Band: Over It

Year: 2005

Format: CD

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Album Description

Formed in northern Virginia in 1998, Over It is now based on Orange County, California and deals in the kind of high-energy guitar pop that has become the region's calling card. Too emotional to be called punk and too edgy to be called emo, Over It's music goes down like a really good granola bar -- sweet but substantial, crunchy but nutritious. If the band has a weakness, it's relentless cheerfulness and sincerity. Those are refreshing qualities in a hard-charging rock & roll band, but every once in awhile you'll find yourself longing for just a faint tinge of tangy irony to offset the sweetness. What they give you instead is an occasional burst of insane velocity -- the headlong sprint of "Ignore the Noise," for example, or the Gilbert & Sullivan-meets-Daddy Freddy speed-rap of "Partner in Crime." Everything else, in particular the exhortatory "We Are the Ordinary" and the ambiguously admonishing "Take a Look Inside," celebrates the best of the human spirit at a slower tempo, but with just as much bare-knuckled intensity and a big, happy smile. Recommended.

~ RICK ANDERSON, ALL MUSIC GUIDE