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Power Pop at its best.....why aren't these guys signed?

R. K. Quinn | Fort Lauderdale, FL USA | 06/03/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Balloon's pop lifts the better elements of late-Sixties and incorporates them into a driving, urgent approach that leaves all the sissified alternacrap on the radio facedown on the ground. The quartet's exhilarating live act takes those tunes to the next level. Anthony's front work receives immaculate support from guitarist/keyboardist Jack Allen, bassist Michael Quinn, and drummer Omar Hernandez. If the group's sound reflects the late Sixties, so their career strategies embrace grassroots hippie ideology. No big-label deal. No video. No flavor-of-the-day hype machine. With nothing more than placement at the listening booth, the CD sold out at Tower Records in Chicago and Minneapolis. Miami, too, knows what time it is: New Times readers chose them as Best Rock Band in 1998 & 1999! Try it...."