Transplants - Haunted Cities
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Artist: TransplantsEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Not Today
- Apocalypse Now
- Gangsters & Thugs
- What I Can't Describe
- Doomsday
- Killafornia
- American Guns
- Madness
- Hit the Fence
- Pay any Price
- I Want It All
- Crash and Burn
Music reviews of Haunted Cities
Music Review: Grossly underrated!
Rating: 4 Stars
Without a doubt, Haunted Cities is in my opinion one of the most underrated albums of the last 5 years. Now I totally understand that The Transplants are one of those bands with no grey area. Either you love them, or you hate them. For those who hated the first album, I have no doubt that you will feel the same about their sophmore effort. However, if you were a fan of the Transplants debut, I truly feel that this is an album that you can appreciate, given the chance. While Haunted Cities does not supply the amount of classics that their debut did, the album as a whole is better. Aside from the the incredibly dull "What I can't Describe" and the obnoxious "Killafornia", every track is dope. Tim's voice sounds different than it used to, but after a couple of playthroughs you begin to understand and appreciate it. Skinhead Rob has improved (though that is not saying much) and Barker continues to keep your head nodding. If you bought this album and listened to it once, please put it back in. If you've never bought it, give it a shot, and listen with an OPEN MIND. You will not be dissapointed.
Description of Haunted Cities
"A few years ago, when Tim, Travis and myself were finishing up the first Transplants album, we weren't sure what was going to happen. You wouldn't believe how many people told us that they "don't get it" or that they're "not sure what people will think". To tell you the truth, we didn't really care. But here we are, a few years later, with a new Transplants album-Haunted Cities. I've always had a hard time describing our records, being as though all 3 of us have different backgrounds all 3 of us live different lives, but what I can tell you is that Haunted Cities is unlike anything else. With guest appearances by the Boo-Yaa Tribe, Rakaa from Dilated Peoples, B-Real and Sen Dog from Cypress Hill, people ain't gonna know what hit 'em. And to tell you the truth, we still don't care."-Rob Aston, Transplants Deluxe Edition includes a 6 panel foldout digipak with a 16 page 4 color booklet.Rarely is a side project equal to the member's primary outfit, but the Transplants subvert that long and wisely held opinion. Named because they are indeed musicians transplanted from other bands--Blink 182's skin beater Travis Barker, Rancid's guitarist and singer, Tim Armstrong, and former AFI roadie Rob Aston make up the line-up--but much to their credit they didn't bring much baggage from their rather high profile musical units except maybe just the smallest throwback to mid-career Rancid on the confrontational and rather bleak "American Guns." But that's really a creative blip, instead the band members display a contagious and clubby party ethic, rather like the Stone Roses before the end of Madchester years with a buzzy menacing guitar and some superb Keith Moon-ian drumming underpinning everything. Instead of promoting punk revivalism, "Haunted Cites" is a compendium of what the band members listen to on their off hours, fusing their love of dancehall, metal, Philly soul, reggae and hip-hop into this rhythmically solid and lyrically adventurous follow-up to their standout 2002 debut. Any band that can name check Blackie Lawless in their first song, and then go on to create such luscious vintage soul, sounding like a reincarnated Stylistics on the chillingly beautiful "What I Can't Describe" deserves to be on the express elevator to the top of the charts. And that's even before you take into account their sardonic paean to hedonism on "Gangsters and Thugs," with it's charmingly bone-headed chorus "Gangsters and thugs/Criminals and hoods/Some of my friends sell records/Some of my friends sell drugs." --Jaan Uhelszki
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