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Johnny Foreigner

So here's the deal. I've tried to get into this band about ten times now. And every time, I absolutely hated them; I seriously thought they were nothing more than terrible noise. But I kept hearing good things so I kept trying anyway. So I downloaded their recently released album - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light - and I liked it a lot better than any of their previous recordings I'd heard (probably because the actual sound quality is a lot better) but still wasn't really into it. Then, I had deleted it from my computer but not my mp3 player, so I ended up hearing one of the songs on shuffle. It was a lot quieter and calmer and nicer than I remembered any of them being and I thought it had to be another band before I actually looked to see that it was them. I quickly became obsessed. This song was "DJs Get Doubts", which as I mentioned, is about the only slow-ish song they have, but apparently it works well as a starting point because from there, I've kind of fallen in love with most of the rest of the album as well. The rest of these songs are a lot more aggressive and frenetic than the above-mentioned but I like them a lot, especially "Lea Room" which is just insanely catchy. I'm sure to some people, they still will sound like terrible noise because they can be pretty harsh on the ears at times, but I'm glad that I finally can say that I like them now. I guess if I had to make comparisons it'd be like a much more aggressive Be Your Own Pet (who unfortunately just broke up, by the way), or for some reason I keep thinking Los Campesinos! (who are putting out another album in October, by the way) if they did punk rock, or maybe the closest would be Help She Can't Swim, another punk rock-ish girl/boy band from the UK, or possibly like a sloppier, louder Blood Red Shoes. I don't know. I'm terrible at making comparisons, I've said a million times. Just listen and decide for yourself.

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