New Jersey youngsters playing wordy post-punk. These guys sounds like The Constantines covering Fugazi with Conor Oberst singing (Desaparecidos Conor, not Bright Eyes Conor). Their new album, The Monitor is getting tons of buzz right now, and rightfully so the album is fucking awesome. The songs are so epic you barely notice that they hover around the 6 minute mark, they just flow so well. The album is steeped in Civil War imagery (and named after the Navy's first iron warship) and heavy on the booze references, not unlike The Hold Steady or The Pogues. Great stuff.
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