When Do We Start Fighting? by Seafood (CD, Mar-2002, Nettwerk)

Album Features
UPC:	067003026420
Artist:	Seafood
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2002
Record Label:	Nettwerk
Genre:	Alternative, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Splinter
2. Western Battle
3. What May Be the Oldest
4. Pleasurehead
5. Cloaking
6. Similar Assassins
7. People Are Underestimated
8. Desert Stretched Before the Sun
9. In This Light Will You Fight Me
10. He Collects Dust

Details
Producer:	Eli Janney
Distributor:	EMI Music Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Seafood: David Line (vocals, guitar); Kevin Hendrick (vocals, bass); Caroline Banks (vocals, drums); Charles Macleod (guitar).Additional personnel: Mary Lorson (vocals); Scott McCloud (spoken word); Eli Janney (keyboards); Ben Hutchinson (percussion); Pete de Boer (special effects).Personnel: David Line (vocals, guitar); Caroline Banks (vocals, drums); Kevin Hendrick, Mary Lorson (vocals); Scott McCloud (spoken vocals).Recording information: Eli & Jennifer's Bedroom, New York, NY; Mission Sound Studios, Brooklyn, NY.Seafood hooked up with Girls Against Boys' Eli Janney on its second album, When Do We Start Fighting, and the match proved golden. When Do We Start Fighting is a slick production with edgy lyrics and bass-heavy guitar work, while the hybrid of Brit-pop and punk moves beyond the "alternative" tag. "People Are Underestimated" glistens around dream pop/indie rock threads similar to the likes of the Pixies. "Splinter" and "Western Battle" are chic metal cuts, and Seafood's tight musicianship is impressive. David Line's candied vocals are boyish but aged. There's something aching underneath these songs. Ex-Madder Rose frontwoman Mary Lorson guests on the intrinsically fragile "What May Be the Oldest," and continues the soul searching. The members of Seafood do not follow their contemporaries on When Do We Start Fighting, and they don't sound uniquely English either. That's what makes this album so enjoyable. Seafood, alongside Janney, made a decent album without giving way to what's commercially appealing. ~ MacKenzie Wilson

Editorial Reviews
...A ragtag mish-mash of an album, with multiple strains of all things alt-rock...with several great moments...
Magnet (20020601)

7 out of 10 - ...Delightful melancholy and immaculately crafted moodiness....Drummer Caroline Banks sends us to the clouds with vocals so light and silky that her controlled yells will have you shuddering with pleasure.
Alternative Press (20020701)