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    Starmarket

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    (1996)

    Reviewed by Conrad

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    Label Deep Elm RecordsDecapolis1999
    emoindie rockpunk

    This band is really good. When I first put the album in I was ready to give it an A/B+. I was like great song, great song, okay song, great, great, okay song, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. This album had the four really good songs all up front, leaving the rest of the album to suffer a bit. Don't get me wrong, the rest of it is still good, but just not as good as the first 4/5 songs. This band is another band of rock power, bands that we like to review here. Good guitar work, hard hitting drums, great vocals. The four great songs have everything. Unfortunately it's like a sprinter that gives too much too fast and slows down enough for the other runners to catch up. There's not much else to say other than if those four songs were more than 60% of the album, I would have given the album a B+/A-. It's still a strong album no matter what. So I give it a strong and well deserved B.

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    Other coverage for this album

    Decapolis 1999Reviewed by dmkSounds like the stuff I would like. Given a few more listens, I think I'd probably give it an even better grade. But as it stands, nothing really jumps out at me to bring this above the rest of the hundreds of other bands that sound like this. B-Decapolis 1999Reviewed by TimThis is great. My friends like it, I like it, what else do you need to hear. It actually stayed in my tape player for more than a day or 2 so it really must be good. B-Decapolis 1999Reviewed by TomThe first time I heard this band was on the Emo Diaries Compilation III on Deep Elm Records. I didn't really know what to think of them. I mean the song was good, but the singers vocals were, well, let me just say a little different. So I kind of came to the conclusion that their full length was either going to be really good, or really bad. Well it turns out the full length is really good. The…

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