Forget What You Know by Midtown (CD, Jun-2004, Columbia (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	827969258422
Artist:	Midtown
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2004
Record Label:	Columbia (USA)
Genre:	Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Armageddon
2. To Our Savior
3. Give It Up
4. Is It Me? Is It True?
5. God Is Dead
6. Whole New World
7. Empty Like the Ocean
8. Nothing Is Ever What It Seems
9. Tragedy of the Human Condition, The
10. Waiting for the News
11. Until It Kills
12. Hey Baby, Don't You Know That We're All Whores
13. Help Me Sleep
14. Manhattan
15. So Long as We Keep Our Bodies Numb We're Safe

Details
Producer:	Butch Walker
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Midtown: Gabriel Saporta (vocals, bass guitar); Tyler Rann (guitar, background vocals); Heath Saraceno (background vocals); Robert Hitt.Personnel: Tyler Rann, Heath Saraceno (vocals, guitar); Robert Hitt (vocals, drums); Gabe Saporta (vocals, programming).Audio Mixers: Butch Walker; Russell T.; Jay Baumgardner.Recording information: Ruby Red Studios, Midtown, Atlanta, GA.Author: Eckhart Tolle.Photographer: Alan Ferguson.New Jersey-based Midtown fuses the unbridled energy and metallic edge of modern emo-core with an angular sense of melody and willingness to experiment that recalls the best moments of post-punk and early American hardcore. FORGET WHAT YOU KNOW, the band's fourth album, is driven by the up-front, Wire/New Order-like bass lines of lead vocalist and four-stringer Gabriel Saporta, and the kinetic drumming of Robert Hitt. Taking its cue from Husker Du's classic ZEN ARCADE, the group sticks to rock, but isn't afraid to take occasional detours, from the barroom piano on "God Is Dead" and "Waiting for the News" to the wispy, Nick Drake-ish intro of "Manhattan."

Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - [T]heir emo attack is full of signs of life, including speed-punk bashing; dark, spidery melodicism; and soft, lush melancholia.
Rolling Stone