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<\/a>\u201cYou\u2019re Not As_As You Think\u201d is a subtle introduction into the punk genre, combining some slow, melodic songs with the thrashing characteristics of punk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
OK, so technically this album came out in March. But honestly, if I can\u2019t break the rules every now and then what\u2019s the point of this whole thing? <\/span><\/p>\n
T<\/span>his album is fantastic, whether you were listening to it last month or just hearing about it now.<\/span><\/p>\n
When I was a wide-eyed freshman back at Western Washington University, I had some punk friends. I even went to a house show in a dingy concrete basement where most people wore black and some of the guys even wore eyeliner. <\/span><\/p>\n
I was not punk. I\u2019m still not punk. But back then? I was listening to The Shins and Brandi Carlile and a lot of really dreamy indie music, not the kind of stuff where you stand in a basement and scream and thrash around to distorted guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n
Enough about me, let\u2019s talk about Sorority Noise. This is their third album, following “<\/span>Joy, Departed”<\/span> (2015) and “<\/span>Forgettable”<\/span> (2014). They\u2019ve found quite a bit of success over those few years, and in fact <\/span>Alternative Press named Sorority Noise one of 100 Bands You Need to Know in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n
If, like me, you\u2019re just starting to explore punk music, these guys are a good place to start. They\u2019re pop-punk, so they\u2019re more accessible than, say, PUP \u2014 a little more melodic, a little less \u2026 shouty. <\/span><\/p>\n
In fact, a few tracks on “<\/span>You\u2019re Not As ___ As You Think”<\/span> are almost calm. \u201cFirst Letter for St. Sean,\u201d a song about the death of a friend, is slow and somber, the vocals occasionally barely audible. \u201cSecond Letter from St. Julien\u201d is very similar, though it builds into something more aggressive near the end. <\/span><\/p>\n
Other songs are pretty unapologetically loud. \u201cDisappeared,\u201d for instance, or \u201cNo Halo.\u201d But it\u2019s \u201cA Portrait Of\u201d that\u2019s easily my favorite song of the album. When I listen to it I can almost picture myself back in that dark basement in Bellingham \u2014 the lead singer pressed up into the microphone, a crowd of strangers jumping along to the guitar and sweat dripping out of the drummer\u2019s hair.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OK, so technically this album came out in March. But honestly, if I can\u2019t break the rules every now and then what\u2019s the point of “KNDS Album of the Month: ‘You\u2019re Not As ___ As You Think’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1063,"featured_media":54895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,4326],"tags":[],"author_slug":"pjohnson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndsuspectrum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}