WARNING: 'exec cmd' is disabled. Use 'exec cgi' or 'virtual' instead -->

Lightweight Holiday Reviews

:: While the Warped crowd is a good target audience for Lightweight Holiday, the band's debut suggests a skill-level on a higher plain than your average, everyday New Found Charlotte. The band seems as influenced by classic Pop/Rock acts as they are new ones, resulting in a more timeless songwriting impact and harmonies that owe more to The Beatles than anyone named Benji. Lightweight Holiday's first step is incredibly promising -- the tight, melodic writing suggests a band with many great years ahead of them. Mike Breen - City Beat

:: Here's some sugar sweet melodic pop played by dudes who also like punk. I mean these tunes are total pop formula, but the band throws in some punk rock stops & distorted guitar. It's very very "new rock". Super produced & ready for mass duplication-Yeah! (LD) - American Music Press

:: According to the press release that accompanied this disc, Lightweight Holiday is comprised of 16 and 17 year olds. I can't beleive this. This album is 12 tracks of mature pop rock in the vein of Superdrag or a Moog-less Get Up Kids. Come to think of it, Lightweight Holiday reminds me of Boston's Favorite Atomic Hero. Anyways this disc is good. Good by old man standards and great by teenage standards, considering these kids probably just got their drivers licence. Brendan McCarthy - Soundcheck Magazine

:: Filling their debut disc with punchy riffs, erratic tempos and lyrics inspired by crushing break-ups, the band flawlessly pulls off all the emo pop-punk cliches. Jessica Hoffman - Columbus Alive

:: I have to agree that the record sounds fabulous and I’ve found myself listening to it over and over again and humming licks from it without thinking. Carlye Archibeque - Destroy All Monthly

:: I listened to it five times in five days, and now I just can't stop. So I decided that all 12 tracks on the Cincinnati, Ohio four-piece's debut album are stellar, and there is not a stinker in the whole bunch, which is an oddity in today's mediocre at best music industry. Adam - www.cincypunk.com

:: Fans of this music style will want to check this band out. I was digging this and I don't like this genre either. Bryan - Ska, Punk and Other Junk

:: The sounds of the nearly 60 bands performing on six stages proved that punk music has many faces. The upbeat power-punk of All American Rejects was followed by the heavier, often screeching sounds of Story of the Year. Cincinnati's Lightweight Holiday played the purest kind of indie pop rock going. Out of all the great music of the day, the surprise highlight was the crowd-pleasing cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, a project of punk musicians from other bands performing in bright red Hawaiian shirts. Warped Tour Review - Buffalo News

:: These guys are really a cut above the rest Graham Bailey - Punknation.com

:: This is one of the first signings from Porterhouse, the new label co-owned by Greg Hetson (of Bad Religion and Circle Jerks fame.) Surprisingly, it's not a punk or hardcore band at all, but a high-school aged power pop group from Cincinnati. I'd like this better if these kids threw a little more bubblegum into their sound; as it is, most of this is girl-meets-boy power-pop somewhere between the sincere indie rock of a Superdrag and the catchy but shallow crap put out by soulless radio whores like All American Rejects. Guitarists Justin Sheldon and Andy Gabbard share songwriting and lead vocal duties, but they're hard to tell apart; there's no brilliant dichotomy here like the dueling songwriters of Husker Du, The dB's, or - hey why not? - The Beatles. Hopefully they'll carve out their own identities as they continue to grow. There's always a chance in today's corporate-dominated punk scene that they'll go over to the dark side, but I'm hoping they'll grow up to become a band I'll really like. Especially if they can keep writing songs as lovely as Justin Sheldon's "The Prize". Jim Testa - Jersey Beat 2003

webmaster
© 2002-2007