The Story So Far

US first press 2011. Record plays great with minor hairlines. Imagine Dashboard Confessional s Chris Carrabba fronting Taking Back Sunday, and you get a rough sense of what the debut album form California s The Story So Far sounds like. While that is something of a crass analogy, these 11 songs do burst with the cathartic desperation of the former and the boundless urgency of the latter. Rough by catchy, raw but well recorded...when an album exudes as much heartfelt passion and determination as this one does, it s hard not to be impressed.