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Waterdown
Files You Have on Me
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock, Metal

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Bulletproof
2. A Fortress
3. Xerox
4. Transient
5. Dodging Bullets
6. Decaffeinated
7. Nails All Broken Short
8. Going Back
9. Disgrace
10. Nothing
11. Interrogation
12. At The Waterfront
13. 13

CD Details

All Artists: Waterdown
Title: Files You Have on Me
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Victory Records
Release Date: 3/25/2003
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rock, Metal
Styles: Hardcore & Punk, Europe, Continental Europe, Alternative Metal
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 746105019324, 0746105019362, 746105019362

Synopsis

Album Description

WATERDOWN is an amalgamation of throaty harsh screaming and some of the most euphonic vocal melodies you will ever hear. Their music provides an uplifting underscore that moves you both sonically and emotionally. Waterdown have played shows with the likes of JIMMY EAT WORLD, THURSDAY, SNAPCASE, AVAIL and GRADE over the last 3 years and show no signs of slowing down. Their newest release, "The Files You Have On Me", provides warm, singy vocals fused with heavy screaming, double bass and is backed with tight leads and harmonic hooks. This record is a must-have for fans of newly successful bands like THE USED and FINCH. Waterdown present another angle and invention to emo, hardcore and to music overall.

CD Reviews

Insane!

D. W. Howell | PA, USA | 08/22/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I got this cd like last month and all I can say is its so stinking amazing. 13 is the only song I don't care for, but then again its an outro so those are usually songs I skip anyways. So if you see this cd you should buy its because its amazing. Oh yeah and the song 'Nothing' is my favorite song, check it out if you can."

Not bad.

Scott Heisel | Cleveland, OH | 05/18/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"A lot of you have been bitching lately that Victory Records has lost it's edge. With it's recent releases of bands like Snowdogs, the Reunion Show, and Count The Stars, as well as new signings like Spitalfield, a lot of you old hardcore kids who grew up on Snapcase and the like are feeling a little bit hung out to try. Well worry no longer, because Waterdown should soothe your stressed nerves while at the same time get you moshing in your computer chair.Waterdown is a six-piece technical hardcore band hailing from over the Atlantic Ocean in Germany, to be exact, and their style [to my mostly virgin ears, by hardcore standards] seems to fall in between two former Victory bands - Boy Sets Fire and Thursday. Their sound is more focused and deliberate than that of Thursday's, and singers Marcel and Ingo are both better singers *and* screamers than anyone in that New Jersey outfit.As for the Boy Sets Fire comparison, Waterdown's breakdowns seem to draw parallels to the moshing parts in slower BSF songs. Lyrically the band doesn't even come close to Nathan Gray's political poetry, but for a bunch of Germans writing and singing in English, it certaintly isn't a poor effort.The disc has some obvious standouts in the first few tracks, of which "A Fortress" and "Transient" have become my favorites. "Xerox" shows more of a Quicksand-esque posthardcore element being injected into the mix, but it gets stale by the fourth minute of the song. The band has a hard time escaping their own formula for the rest of the album, using up most of their tricks in the first dozen minutes or so. Still, there's definitely potential here, and for those hardcore purists who are waiting for Victory to return to form, this might just be the release to reaffirm your belief in the label."