Review from Whatzup Magazine:
If there's one characteristic most bands have a difficult time capturing on an album it's live energy. This writer has yet to see The Dead Records live, but if songs on albums tend to be less vivacious than their live incarnations then The Dead Records must sweat an awful lot on stage.
And Now We Dance plays out mostly like a conversation in first- and second-person set to a blend of punky upbeat rock music with aspects of post-rock thrown in for occasional variation. The word "emo" is useless in style description these days, but suffice it to say a heavy emotional current runs beneath these songs. The band sounds tight and the production is crisp enough to allow the lyrics to cut through the loud and soft equally well. This clarity is met with mixed results.
Lead singer Aaron Taylor lets listeners know early that he's sorry. Real sorry. In fact, the first track is called "My Apology" and it closes with a circular apology for apologizing. The second track, an up-tempo rocker entitled "Hum Along," sticks to the theme. Taylor throws out sorrys for not singing, playing or writing the songs the way, uh, you want him to. In his words, "If you don't like it, don't listen to it." However, Taylor emphatically insists that he wrote the song for all of his friends and you to sing or hum along to (whichever they/you prefer.) Fair enough: friends up, critics down.
The rest of the album never lets the tempo slow or the singing get too organized. The Dead Records bank on their singer's untamed voice to float bombastically over the top of the tightly wound rock machine chugging away below. Verses about love, alcohol, traveling, regret, etc., all receive arbitrary musical treatment; only occasionally is the texture stripped down to guitar and vocals to contrast the predominant constancy of the full band.
The Dead Records sound like they are ready to make an impression musically as a loud and energetic force in the local scene and surrounding areas. Lyrically they may sound a bit unrefined, but their punk rock sound, while easily recognized, is well-studied and presented here. (C. Ray Harvey)
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