Saves The Day Stay What You Are CD

This pop-punk outfit started out young--VERY young. They were still in their teens when they released their first album, and this one--their third--naturally finds them still flush with youthful enthusiasm but bearing distinct signs of songwriting maturity. There's no slowdown of excitement on STAY WHAT YOU ARE--the band still practices four-on-the-floor, heavy-guitar punk-pop a la Green Day or Blink-182. But their lyrical smarts put them in a place somewhere in between those two bands; smarter and more purposeful than the latter and minus the ballads-with-strings moves of the former. Although the pace seldom lets up from blazing guitars, pounding drums, and proud, loud, and snotty vocals, there's a discernible intelligence at the heart of the songs that lets the listener know that Saves the Day put a fair amount of thought into the tunes on STAY WHAT YOU ARE.

To Be Distributed By Universal If At All-Orig.Street 7/10/1

Recorded at Sunset Sound, Sound Factory, Hollywood, California and Sonora Sound Studios, Los Feliz, California.

Audio Mixers: Doug Boehm; Rob Schnapf.

Recording information: Sonora Sound, Los Feliz, CA (03/2001-04/2001); Sound Factory, Hollywood, CA (03/2001-04/2001); Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA (03/2001-04/2001).

Photographer: Bryan Newman.

Saves The Day includes: Chris Conley, David Salway, Eben D'Amico, Bryan Newman, Ted Alexander.

Additional personnel: Richard Barron (organ).

Q (4/02, p.120) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...Gritty guitar pop...with an altogether darker undercurrent lurking beneath the bright and breezy hooks..."
Alternative Press (10/01, pp.94-5) - 8 out of 10 - "...Astounding..."
CMJ (7/30/01, p.5) - "...Exquisitely crafted...gritty popcore power chords, soaring vocal harmonies and driving 4/4 beats..."
NME (Magazine) (4/6/02, p.35) - 7 out of 10 - "...The regular flow of melodies and blood-stained poetry will get into the arteries of anyone who's been broken-hearted..."