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Formalities

The Spill Canvas

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Spill will always be one of my favorites.

I understand what everyone is saying. Compare, for example, So Much, off Sunsets & Car Crashes, and their more recent Gateway Drug and they sound literally nothing alike. But you have to understand this: Sunsets & Car Crashes was released in April of 2004. It is now 2010. What was YOUR taste in music in 2004? I know personally, my taste in music has changed at least a little since then. It's completely understandable that the music changes with the artist. Take for example, even The Beatles. Their first hits were songs like I Saw Her Standing There and Twist & Shout. Compare now to their later songs, Yellow Submarine, Octopus' Garden, and I Am The Walrus. The music changed, yet it was still great.

The Spill Canvas is not losing their talent, they're growing and evolving as a band. Take into account that they cannot simply rewrite Lullaby or Black Dresses for the years to come, or they will be criticized for being "unoriginal" or "boring." Would you rather that, or new, fresh music every time?

Disappointing.

I think that The Spill Canvas have lost their touch. This is not what I was hoping for when I heard they had a new CD coming out this year. After hearing the Abnormalities and Realities EPs, I just thought they were losing it. I'm all for having change and "growing" in musical style, but this is just bad in my opinion. There's no depth to the lyrics, and it's just...different in a not-so-good way. Formalities is nothing compared to the likes of their previous albums. Two stars for effort.

It almost hurts

I started listening to them with the one fell swoop album. I listen to everything before and everything up to now. It's disappointing that I could care less that there making new music. The lyrics are lacking and the sound is becoming mainstream. Hoping this is just a phase and the real spill canvas will come back. I give one star because at least the song "Let Go" isn't on this cd.

Biography

Formed: 2002 in Sioux Falls, SD

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s, '10s

Like Bright Eyes and Five for Fighting, the Spill Canvas began as the pseudonym for a solo singer/songwriter before transitioning into a traditional band. Sioux Falls native Nick Thomas played in a variety of local punk bands in his early teens before transforming himself into a solo acoustic emo act along the lines of Dashboard Confessional. At the age of 19, he signed with the indie label One Eleven Records and recorded Sunsets and Car Crashes almost entirely on his own, save for a few guest musicians....
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