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Old 05-27-2008, 10:55 PM   #44
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Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes and Domestica both unquestionably have early emo influences. There are parallels throughout both of those albums to earlier emo rock artists. So I'd say WeX is fairly on the money in that call. By the time they added Gretta Cohn though and started really expanding their horizons with Burst and Bloom, The Ugly Organ and beyond - as well as the secondary fact that Tim Kasher has grown as a songwriter and lyricist - their sound had transcended into something far more based in indie rock and even post-hardcore, to an extent.
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