I Said It First!

This band LostAlone is SO good. I wouldn't be surprised if they were huge in a year or so. Musically, they're not as woefully emo in style as their unfortunate name, page layout and self-consciously dark song titles suggest. They're more like 80s metal-meets-prog rock-meets-Britpop-meets- emo. Which sounds like a car wreck, but its NOT. It's just what rock should be.

I downloaded Say No to The World. The whole CD is gold. It's rare for an indie-label debut to sound so focused and confident. It's magic when something born of despair is crafted into something to make people happy. Sorry Billy; this is what Zeitgeist should have been.

Listen to the "Gospel" demo on their profile all the way through. It's not on the album, but it's still my favorite song. I have to find a way to listen to it outside of MySpace.

Apparently they're quite big in Germany, rising stars in their native Britain, and unknown in the U.S. They have been nominated for Best British Newcomer in the Kerrang Awards (Kerrang magazine being the foremost hard rock publication in the UK), so I'm not the only one who thinks they're worth something. But I'm the first person on Facebook to tag these guys. I'm sure there will be more when I'm done evangelizing.