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 Post subject: The official Room Noises reviews thread!Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:55 pm 
Hey guys, at Boyd's request, I'm putting this thread up as a reposity of all (good and bad!) reviews of Room Noises. Please feel free to post links/transcripts of reviews you find online or in magazines/newspapers/blogs... anything! Just be sure to include where it is, the date, and a synopsis (how many stars/what grade?) of the review. To get the ball rolling: E! Online - B http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Music/RevID/0,1107,3394,00.html Entertainment Weekly - 2/5/05 - B+ "This fresh-faced band comprising four Texas siblings and their bassist friend sounds more like seasoned pros than industry young'uns on their full-length debut. Noises charms with refreshing indie-flavored pop-rock fare like "Marvelous Things" and "Memories," which lace subtle guitar/keyboard riffs with sweet (but not syrupy) Lisa Loeb-esque vocals. There's always room for growth, but this solid first album proves we were right to declare Eisley one of the South by Southwest's 2003 standouts. B+" -Vickie An Fort Worth Weekly - 1/26/05 http://www.fwweekly.com/issues/2005-01-26/listenup.asp Paste Magazine - Issue 14 - 3 1/2 out of 5 stars http://pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=1468 All Music Guide - 4 out of 5 stars; AMG Album Pick http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:qeadqj4eojda~T1 Amazon Reviews - Average 4.5 out of 5 stars; Sales rank #262 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006ZOV5E/103-6294595-2 313431?v=glance "That mixture of bittersweetness and innocent optimism is what makes Eisley so darn appealing. Nowhere are the stereotypical I-just-wanna-have-fun or my-boy/girlfriend-dumped-me-and-now-I-wanna-swim-with-the-toaster music for THIS pop band. While they have some love songs, the emphasis is on their enchanting kind of whimsy." Denver WestWord - 2/10/05 http://music.westword.com/issues/2005-02-10/music/nowhearthis5.html (beware of a few expletives here and there) Rolling Stone - 2/24/05(?) - 2 out of 5 stars Rolling Stone Link Denver Post - 2/8/05 http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E28704%257E2697731,00.h tml BlogCritics.org - 2/14/05 http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/02/14/191832.php The Skyline View - 2/14/05 (Great review!) http://www.theskylineview.com/news/2005/02/14/Entertainment/Eisley.Put s.Their.Dreams.To.Music.In.Debut-863837.shtml Boston University Daily Free Press - 2/17/05 - B http://www.dailyfreepress.com/news/2005/02/17/Muse/A.NoiseWorthy.Welco me-868214.shtml Loyola College Greyhound - 2/15/05 (Lengthy and good) http://www.loyolagreyhound.com/news/2005/02/15/ArtsSociety/Eisleys.Lon gAwaited.Debut.Shows.Promise-865071.shtml LiveDaily - 2/15/05 http://www.livedaily.com/news/7699.html?t=98 University of Wisconsin Daily Cardinal - 2/15/05 - "Overall, Eisley has released an impressive, unique and downright gorgeous album." http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/2005/02/16/Arts/Eisleys.room.Showcas es.The.Bands.Excellent.noise-865490.shtml The Hard Music Magazine - Mar/Apr Issue #112 http://www.hmmagazine.com/reviews/album/e/eisley0205.php Bonus label press release about tour and its success http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=81250 liveDaily.com review http://www.livedaily.com/news/7699.html?t=100 "This Texas-based quintet, which features four siblings and a family friend, applies equal amounts of pixie dust and Poetry 101..." The East Carolinian - 2/23/05 http://www.theeastcarolinian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/23/421be4 3dbd417 Dallas Morning News - 2/23/05 - B+ Really great review. Sweet. http://www.whas11.com/sharedcontent/features/poprock2/022005ccjrmusice isley.da2142fc.html (PS, if you want a login to read it, go to bugmenot.com and type in whas11.com) The Niner - 2/25/05 http://www.nineronline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/25/421e3a5b3266 9 Drury University Mirror - 2/25/05 http://drurymirror.collegepublisher.com/global_user_elements/printpage .cfm?storyid=878377 University of Texas at Dallas Mercury - 2/28/05 http://www.theutdmercury.com/news/879659.html Hofstra University Hampstead - 3/11/05 http://www.hofstrachronicle.com/news/2005/03/11/Entertainment/Cd.Revie w.Eisley.room.Noises-892824.shtml Washington State Daily - 3/3/05 http://thedaily.washington.edu/ae.lasso?-database=DailyWebSQL&-table=A rticles&-response=wnpage.lasso&-keyField=__Record_ID__&-keyValue=12250 &-search University of Nebraska at Omaha Gateway - 3/4/05 - B- http://www.unogateway.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/03/04/4227ed1d3a9bc Punk-Music.Net - 3/30/05 - 93% http://www.punk-music.net/content.php?review.157 I want more! MORE! Post reviews you find in here. _________________ |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:57 pm
Here's two semi-related interesting URLs: Review of the Pomona, CA show: http://www.emotionalpunk.com/reviews/shows/eisleyglasshouse.php (9 out of 10 overall) KLTV Eisley bit/interview: http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2918175&nav=1TjDW8VD (Click on the camera icon where it says "Eisley CD" under the picture to view the streaming WMV of the piece) _________________ |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:42 pm
Review of Room Noises on Gen-G http://www.gen-g.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&re q=showcontent&id=131 Release Story http://www.gen-g.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid =757&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Eisley on Launch story http://www.gen-g.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid =720 Enjoy  _________________ Chauntelle Rocks! |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:58 am
Indiana Statesman Review http://www.indianastatesman.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/02/09/420987b 58951a _________________ http://www.myspace.com/whisperingtrees |
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:22 pm
I just got an e-mail from cMusicWeb.com and Room Noises was the pick of the week: ROOM NOISES - EISLEY I'll admit: this PICK OF THE WEEK is not for everybody. But at least give it a try. Eisley is a new pop/rock band has their own unique sound. One minute the music reminds you of Radiohead, the next of The Beatles, but the soaring vocals of Stacey bring it all back together. These four siblings and a friend from Texas deliver music that is like no other. Check the band that has toured with Coldplay, Brand New, Snow Patrol, and will be out this spring with New Found Glory. http://cmusicweb.com/modernrock/index.shtml if you click the "more on Eisley" link, there is an article with some cool pics from the Brand New tour. =========================================== another from Relevant Magazine: http://relevantmagazine.com/article.php?sid=5773 REVIEW: EISLEY, ROOM NOISES By Thomas Nash This is a tough job. I’m supposed to retain my critical objectivity in describing Room Noises, the debut full-length album by teen wunderkinds Eisley. The problem is that the album is so enjoyable that I’ll have to grasp at the proverbial straws to find a flaw. Room Noises begins with a newly recorded version of the previously released “Memories.” And I guess this is where objectivity should kick in. I wish that Room Noises contained all new songs. There are a total of four songs that have been heard before. Three of them—“Memories,” “Telescope Eyes” and “I Wasn’t Prepared”—have been re-ecorded (with the exception of “Telescope Eyes”) to superb results. The fanciful “Marvelous Things” though, is exactly as Aaron Sprinkle produced it for the Marvelous Things EP, showing that Eisley wisely knows that perfection can’t be improved upon. The most striking thing about Room Noises is the overwhelming charm of Eisley’s music. They harmonize fantastically; and artful, multilayered harmony has sadly gone into disuse in current pop music. There is a youthful exuberance and a keen collective imagination at work here. If James M. Barrie were a contemporary author and a movie was being made about Peter Pan, I feel certain he’d want Eisley to score it. When you hear them singing “I shall never grow up” on “Brightly Wound,” you’ll believe them and wish you hadn’t yourself. Musically there are many possible points of reference to compare Eisley, but they have no peer that corresponds to their precise style. Yes, there are some nods to Belly, Sixpence None the Richer and The Sundays, and there are even some striking similarities to those artists. Overall though, Eisley is one of a kind. Some people may be turned off by the fact that Eisley consists of mostly teenagers, but don’t let their youth dissuade you from giving them a chance. They write ALL of their songs, play their own instruments, and they even produce and mix some of the songs on Room Noises. How many youthful acts can say that? Let’s just say that if Eisley should play on Saturday Night Live, you wouldn’t see any lip-synching “band malfunctions.” From start to finish this album is entrancing. You’ll tell people to quiet down around you so that you can hear the music better. True, Eisley hasn’t created a treatise on the state of world politics like Radiohead might. And they aren’t trying to convince you of a hidden agenda. Plainly and simply, Eisley is an escape from that oh so serious mindset that the world has gotten us into. Escape is good. [Thomas Nash is one half of the indie music duo Tiny Rain. He enjoys writing and recording music with his wife Jana, and has been known to say odd things from time to time for effect. This isn’t one of those times.] _________________ I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away. |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:56 am
posted a review that I found of Eisley room noises on my site: mysite.verizon.net/vzeeg3lp/ While their check out the rest of my site and make comments in the guestbook. _________________ _________________ go to my web site: http://sportspoliticandrevenge.com |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:54 pm
[url=http://www.news-journal.com/featr/content/features/stories/2005/0 2/06/20050206LNJeisley.html;COXnetJSessionID=COVjKOSz98dXfN7KL7KPtYT2y fcnD9NW12X2OizTD3XF5W1YMsCm!6552243?urac=n&urvf=11082519398600.5902811 108596238]news-journal.com[/url] article my favorite line: "Sherri: Hopefully we won't have to go to work at Burger King or something." |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:16 pm
Eisley review on InsidePulse.com Same review, albeit with less garish colors, on jeremybotter.com |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:35 pm
Buzz - a review and interview http://www.buzztexas.com/stories/02/eisley.html Mundane Sounds- a great review and pretty right on. He even trashes Telescope Eyes so you know he's a long time fan. http://www.mundanesounds.com/record_review.php?id=1155 Austin Chronicle - a very nasty review by someone who has been listening for a while http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-02-18/music_phases 5.html www.75orless.com Eisley falls into that very narrow category of bands with underground buzz who are on the verge of becoming widely known. Poor kids, the pressure must be immense. Though they should be applauded for writing and performing better material than a host of their peers, Room Noises betrays the band's penchant for overcompensation; clever musical and lyrical turns simply for the sake of cleverness. What could have been a wonderful pop record is tainted by its desire to be something more. - paul[/url] |
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Post subject: Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:35 pm
Thanks for the replies... I've added a few more that I found recently to my original post. _________________ |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:01 am
karina wrote: [url=http://www.news-journal.com/featr/content/features/stories /2005/02/06/20050206LNJeisley.html;COXnetJSessionID=COVjKOSz98dXfN7KL 7KPtYT2yfcnD9NW12X2OizTD3XF5W1YMsCm!6552243?urac=n&urvf=11082519398600 .5902811108596238]news-journal.com[/url] article
my favorite line: "Sherri: Hopefully we won't have to go to work at Burger King or something." That's my interview! I'll have to try to put the full-length one up some day. It's really about twice as long as what ran. Uhm, I'm off topic. _________________ My photography:www.jamiemphoto.com You can't spell awesome without emo...backwards! -Julie definingawesome (11:44:11 PM): Eisley shivers our timbers |
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:41 am
Review BLENDER MAGAZINE 3 stars Eisley Room Noises (Reprise) Release Date: 2/8/2005 Coldplay’s favorite sci-fi-loving Christian rock teens Reviewed by ANDREW HARRISON They borrowed their name from a seedy, intergalactic Star Wars space port, but this full-length debut is no hive of scum and villainy. As well-adjusted as home-schooled Christian girl-boy siblings could be, Eisley deal in sunny melodies, wide-open skies and only slightly adulterated optimism. Like a pre-cynical Rilo Kiley or a rightsized Polyphonic Spree, they summon a grand sonic sweep with modest garage-band means (it makes sense that Coldplay handpicked them as tourmates in 2003) and they’re unafraid to sing hokey lines (“Wake up! The sun is beautiful!”). They’re young — chief songwriter Stacy DuPree is only 16 — but there’s a surefootedness and subtlety here to shame many elders. DOWNLOAD: “One Day I Slowly Floated Away,” “Telescope Eyes,” “Trollywood” _________________ Don't you let them tell you you're an ugly child. They are blind to the beauty that lies within |
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Post subject: Metacritic Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:17 am
http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/eisley/roomnoises (most of these are probably already on here...) _________________ www.myspace.com/copacabana |
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:12 am
i wonder why they waited so long to post that. i usually check metacritic any time something i'm interested in comes out. _________________ I am Torgo. I take care of the place while the Master is away. |
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