Sherwood "Sing, But Keep Going" (Sidecho)
By Tanya van Kampen
Monday. Jun 06, 3:27 AM
Organic and aesthetically more mature than its peers.

For the love of God, when will it stop? It seems that there is no end in sight to the exorbitant amount of bands throwing themselves on the persistent bandwagon of emo. They should update the ol’ saying: “only THREE things will survive a nuclear war: roaches, Cher, and emo.”

Now that I have a legion of overly sensitive 16 year-old enemies, let me just say that I actually liked Sherwood’s full-length debut. Sing, But Keep Going is definitely better than the average emo record that’s come out lately. I’m not quite sure what exactly sets it apart from the rest, except that aesthetically it just sounds more mature. Not so much the lyrics, but the composition of the songs as a whole (i.e. the manner in which the vocal melodies are layered with the instrumentation). That, and the mere intonation of the vocals don’t make me want to crawl out of my skin.

From what I’ve read about the band, it seems that Sherwood have a very honest, documentary style approach to their songwriting. It’s a method that has paid off with a debut album that’s as organic in sound as it is uncontrived in emotion. Amen to that.
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Tanya Van Kampen

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