Punk rock finally smiled during the late '90s and into the millennium, thanks to the bands like New Found Glory, Sum 41, and countless other TRL mainstays.
New Jersey's own Saves the Day play with post-punk stylings on their third album, Stay What You Are.
More mature compared to 1999's Through Being Cool, Stay What You Are mixes emocore delight with post-grunge snarl, and Saves the Day's harmonies are jaunty and tight.
But the album is also quite dark and grim; they stay close to the anger found in punk in the first place.
Album opener "At Your Funeral" pauses at the idea of death of a peer.
Frontman Chris Conley's boyish vocals project a façade of sweet, bouncy sounds, practically glossy and sheer.
The bleak descriptions found on "Jukebox Breakdown" and "Nightingale" capture the grittiest three-chord riffs and Saves the Day's highest artistic moment yet.
They're bittersweet from love, and self-discovery is most pertinent.
They want to avoid such loss, and "All I'm Losing Is Me" suggests that.
Saves the Day is conscious of what's affecting their generation, post Generation-X, and they're asking thousands of questions.
Stay What You Are yearns to fight the compromise within social standards and complies with bit of self-indulgence.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At Your Funeral | Saves the Day | Play | 03:09 | 7 MB | 21 MB |
| 2 | See You | Saves the Day | Play | 02:08 | 4 MB | 15 MB |
| 3 | Cars & Calories | Saves the Day | Play | 02:45 | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| 4 | Certain Tragedy | Saves the Day | Play | 02:27 | 5 MB | 18 MB |
| 5 | Jukebox Breakdown | Saves the Day | Play | 03:04 | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| 6 | Freakish | Saves the Day | Play | 03:47 | 8 MB | 27 MB |
| 7 | As Your Ghost Takes Flight | Saves the Day | Play | 02:25 | 5 MB | 17 MB |
| 8 | Nightingale | Saves the Day | Play | 03:36 | 8 MB | 25 MB |
| 9 | All I'm Losing Is Me | Saves the Day | Play | 03:22 | 7 MB | 25 MB |
| 10 | This Is Not an Exit | Saves the Day | Play | 03:56 | 9 MB | 27 MB |
| 11 | Firefly | Saves the Day | Play | 02:51 | 6 MB | 20 MB |
| 33 mins | 76 MB | |||||
| 33 mins | 242 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ted Alexander | Group Member |
| 2 | Doug Boehm | Mixing |
| 3 | Chris Conley | Group Member |
| 4 | Eben D'Amico | Group Member |
| 5 | Bryan Newman | Design, Group Member, Photography |
| 6 | Steven Rhodes | Assistant |
| 7 | Saves the Day | Primary Artist |
| 8 | Rob Schnapf | Mixing, Producer |
| 9 | David Soloway | Group Member |
| 10 | Josh Turner | Engineer |
| 11 | Don C. Tyler | Mastering |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |