Sights & Sounds
S/T EP
4/5

If you have heard about these guys from their other bands, please start by dropping your expectation of what this disc will sound like. It’s not even close to as heavy as a Comeback Kid album or as poppy as the Sick City debut. Sight & Sounds is a creation all on its own. Delivering an EP seems to be the perfect strategy for this band to give us a taste that makes us curious.

Sights & Sounds feels very current. They have taken elements of some of the best Canadian rock and punk bands out there and applied it to their own indie punk sound. It’s so hard to put a finger on what they are. They are not a punk band with all of the anger and screaming. There are pianos on many of the six tracks, as well as well placed female backing vocals. It has ‘love’ songs, such as “The Only Time.” Tough guys can take it elsewhere.

Yet contrasting all of that it has this very rough and tumble rock sound. It’s got a guys-in-the-garage feel to the way it was recorded and comes across. There is something raw about the vocals through the entire EP. Nothing is smooth even when it is a little more pop, like in “Lee’s On Friday.”

It’s hard to define, but that’s part of what makes it good. You won’t have too many discs like this one in your collection. With only six songs, one of which is a short instrumental, this self-titled feels short, but at least they have left you wanting more.

Track Listing:

1. Reconcile
2. Night Train
3. Four Day Weekend
4. Lee’s On Fridays
5. The Only Time
6. Part Two

- Stephanie Joudrey