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A GREAT freshman record!

Eric J. Hradecky | Rockford, IL United States | 08/26/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I find the freshman release of Quarter after VERY SATISFYING! I'm very puzzled by previous (negative) reviews here at Amazon, and wonder if we listened to the same record!?!



Those who gave this record only a single star obviously are not fans of modern psychedelic music. And to call track 5 "Too Much To Think About" a MIND NUMBING 12 minutes (in a negative sense) misses the point of this song COMPLETELY!! I think "Too Much To Think About" is the stand out recording of this cd!



Much like Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Massacre(who by the way contributes to track 5!) Dominic Campanella has the late 1960's sound down. {If you don't hear the Byrds in his compositions you don't know the Byrds music.} But also like Newcombe Campanella and Quarter After are NOT anachronistic! Campanella has the gift of making modern music sound timeless!



Here are a few names of bands: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Warlocks, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Major Stars, (Syd's) Pink Floyd, th Faith Healers, Dead Meadow, the Dandy Warhols...if you like ANY ONE of these bands, I'm sure you'll like this recording as much as I do.



Be brave...buy this cd!"

Unbelievable. Righteous. Psychedelic.

Jon Hunt | Minneapolis, MN | 03/15/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I agree with the other four-and-five-star reviews, here -- are all the people giving this album one star insane? Listening to the wrong album? Enemies of the band with a grudge? Blinkered Brian Jonestown fans who can't accept another band's work? No matter, disregard them: the album is absolutely brilliant. The Quarter After whip up an absolutely righteous pyschedelic steam -- the fuzzed guitars and massed vocals strike *exactly* the place in your heart that the Buffalo Springfield did, or the Quicksilver Messenger Service, or any number of deeply trippy bands-unafraid-to-make-an-unholy-guitar-noise. The songwriting's superb, the singing's great, and the vibe is note-perfect. "The Quarter After" is yet another piece of the Los Angeles Fuzz-Pop puzzle, and one of the best yet. Check it out."

Among the best

M. Stanley | L.A. | 10/11/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"60's rock/pop/garage is an idiom of its own at this point. The sooner people accept this, the sooner they can stop wondering why people still play it. Might as well ask why anyone still writes and plays punk, blues, jazz or ska. If you don't like the style, than you will never appreciate bands like this, just as I don't appreciate hip hop or Justin Timberlake. Just as people who hate jazz probably shouldn't listen to it.



That out of the way, The Quarter After are the real deal. Among many bands who do play 60's style music, they, like their contemporaries The Brian Jonestown Massacre (Anton Newcomb helped worked on this CD, among others) not only sound like it, they are it. By this I mean it's as if they stepped out of the period, fully realized and original. Which means their writing abilities are hands above many. The QA not only sounds like the Byrds and Gene Clark, they rival them. Even better, much like BJM and the 80's paisley underground band Rain Parade, they take the sound and make it their own. They are the cream of the crop. Or is it were? This 2005 release is the only thing I've found by them. A rare gem, if so.



Highly recommeded.



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