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Hello Nurse:
Hey Sailor EP
Perhaps it was seeing Dashboard Confessional cover Automatic for the People on MTV2 last year that prompted this collection from New York City-based Hello Nurse. But dont let that mislead you into thinking you may have something special on your hands with Hey Sailor. Even at its most pleasing, this EP lives or (mostly) dies by its lead singers grating emo wail. Sans vocals, Hello Nurse take a familiar pop-oriented approach (lots of hook-and-song) and succeed at introducing a lot of good ideas but not great songs. Thats not to say they arent onto something. The confidence just isnt there yet. And yes, at times theyre reminiscent of early REM, with the opening moments of Ordinary Me and Tectonic recalling Murmurs Laughing and We Walk, respectively, and Christian Sparling dropping bombs like hes Bill Berry but thats where the comparisons end. All Choked Up has the potential to be the album highlight it wants to be with its glorious highs and lows, but like most of the record, its difficult to get past Garcias delivery. Then again, its difficult to discount the album merely because of its category-specific vocals, even if that category is emo. (After all, someones digging all these emotional bands.) That said, emo fans, you may have something special here.
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