Sick City
Nightlife
4/5

Who It’s For: Probably kids with bad hair cuts, but everyone should be giving this a taste.
Sounds Like: Emo-ish punk with heart

People who don’t give Sick City a chance are going to write them off as another emo band, and maybe they are but there is something there. Maybe I am being a softy because they are Canadian, but they feel more genuine then some of the manufactured bands being plastered on television.

There is a beauty mixed up into their rock style. It comes out through the piano and melody of “City Lights” and the instrumental title track. Fans of this genre should grab up this disc just because here is a band of a popular genre that hasn’t given into being mundane. They are still trying to make something different and memorable. In tracks like “Tora, Tora, My Dear Tora” they have mixed the screamo screaming with a female soprano doing back up vocals. Perhaps it’s their personality, but something has been injected into these songs making them feel believable and damn catchy right front the first track.

It’s true that even though they have made something different of themselves Sick City still do have elements of sounding like many bands out there today. It’s easy for Nightlife to get lost in the shuffle of your iPod or for your attention to linger elsewhere when listening, but if you can give your full attention to Sick City for each song they do not often disappoint.

Track Listing:

1. Antoinette
2. XX & XY
3. Turning Heads
4. Killing Ourselves To Feel
5. Islands
6. Nightlife
7. In The Millions
8. The Heist
9. Moving, Not Moving Forward
10. Smiles & Cries
11. City Lights
12. Tora, Tora, My Dear Tora

- Stephanie Joudrey