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John Nolan – Height

The former singer/guitarist for Taking Back Sunday, John Nolan, left the band with Taking Back Sunday’s bassist Shaun Cooper to start a new band called Straylight Run. John Nolan then went on to start a solo project and will be releasing his fist solo album on October 27, 2009. After just looking at the cover of the album, the album caught my attention. The album cover artwork is of a paint-picture of someone jumping up in the air, barefoot, and in a calm grass clearing. height

Once I found out that John Nolan was formally a part of the band Taking Back Sunday, I had a biased opinion towards him (I strongly dislike Taking Back Sunday). However, once I listened to the album all the way through, my bad thought about him vanished… for the most part. The first three tracks on the album start off nicely. But the two tracks after are not a good follow up.

The first track “The End of The Beginning” is about a one-minute long intro musical piece that sets up for the song “Til its Done To Death,” which is by far my favorite song on the album. It is a mellow song that has a catchy beat and choirs that leaves you singing along to the music.

The last few tracts are definitely worth going out and listening to. There were only two bad apples in my opinion on the album. “Here I Am” is one of the latter tracks that resembles that of the music Pink Floyd used to create.

So get to it and have your self a gander. Height is available Oct. 27.

Tracklisting:
01. Till It s Done To Death
02. I Don t Believe You
03. Screaming Into The Wind
04. It Takes A Long Time
05. Here I Am
06. Not To Let Go
07. Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In Hand
08. I Won’t Ever Be There
09. Keep Calm And Carry On

John Nolan: myspace

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