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| Album Rating: B+ |
Sad music is hard. Scratch that--good sad music is hard. A quality soul-scorcher gives legitimacy to your emotions but also remembers to acknowledge that they're as temporary as the weather; like the seasons go, your spring will come. It sits with you in your valley but throws you down the rope to climb out. Sad music is not as easy as it looks: it takes equal parts musical prowess and personal maturity. And yet you listen to something like
The Other Side, the very first full-length from indie-rock band Caterpillars, and you'd think these guys have been at it their entire lives.
