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Socratic — Lunch For the Sky Buy it at Amazon

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Socratic’s debut full-length to be released on Drive-Thru Records is a groove-oriented indie rock masterpiece. While extremely eclectic and some may say even eccentric or avant garde in delivery, “Lunch For the Sky” promises to win over the masses with its liberal use of melodies and delightful harmonies all arranged as promising rock operas. Not since “Bittersweet Symphony” have songs had that operatic and orchestrated feel with symphonic rock bliss straightly distributed inside the bubble of pop-rock. Vinny D’Amico’s piano and vocals lend Socratic its unique voice of which producer John Goodmanson (Hot Hot Heat, Sleater-Kinney, The Blood Brothers) has already made his mark in delivering. Dramatic rock with haunting visions of lyrical excesses and impressive songwriting is befitting their philosophic moniker. Besides any band that calls out the screamo kids as they do on “Alexandria As Our Lens” with a bellowing of “Hey all you screamo. What’s the deal when any talent that you lack is covered up by the fact that you can scream out really loud? Say things that were said before. Every lyric that you sing it sounds the same.” Brilliant!

- J-Sin

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