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Album Details

• Artist: Red Shirt Brigade
• Album: Home Of The Cannon Saints
• Label: Arbor Vitae
• Year of Release: 2001
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2003-03-31

Red Shirt Brigade provide us with a very entertaining indie rock album. Home of the Cannon Saints is the proper debut album by Detroit’s RSB and they have done a fine job on incorporating all that is cool with the left field of rock music. Their style is not completely new but they come off sounding very original. They generally have a more of a high singing style but they can get fairly aggressive with their guitars at times. The band use different techniques with distortion and other such devices. Some of their sounds are crystal clear and chimey like the beginning of “Years of Skulls�. Red Shirt Brigade is a band that doesn’t like to be pigeonholed with similar bands and successful skirts around that. There are times when you think that RSB are coming quite close to bands before them but you can’t quite figure it out and then they’re onto something completely unrelated like the jammy “Booty Boot Camp�. They like to use the synthesizer in ways it doesn’t get used very often. And to top all this, they employed Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla to produce the album. The Cannon Saints is as good a debut as the Red Shirt Brigade could have ever hoped for.

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