Comments on: Anberlin - Cities

By: Michael Schneider

Michael Schneider — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:37:45 +0000

I love this record. Can’t wait to see it live…

By: Julie Watanabe

Julie Watanabe — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:51:36 +0000

I’d hate to make this seem like an ambush on you Ryan, but Bryce said it perfectly. When I wrote this review it was after having read 3-4 reviews that all began praising Cities for being the best thing in music. Frankly, I tired of everyone being a vessel instead of a critic. Had I written this review about all the things Anberlin did RIGHT on Cities, the review would have been twice as long. And now that I read through this, maybe I didn’t point out enough positives to warrant this not being slightly negative. However, that doesn’t change the fact that I think Cities is a GOOD album. I gave it an 8.5! That’s huge considering how I rate albums these days! What I was trying to say was that something wasn’t sitting right with me, hence I felt cheated. After hearing the massive improvement Anberlin made from Blueprints to NTFP, I was expecting Cities to blow everything out of the water, but when it didn’t, I felt my expectations fell short. Like Bryce said, it was a little left from perfect.

By: Bryce Jacobson

Bryce Jacobson — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:51:00 +0000

I don’t think its so much negativity but more along the lines of “this is amazing, but there is just that one thing missing to make it a perfect album.”

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:15:02 +0000

I don’t get the negativity about this album. It seems that a lot of people are saying that this album is a disappointment and I think that’s insane. This is the best album that they have ever done and I hope that people will learn to appreciate it. It took me a few listens to truly appreciate how good it is, but it is definitely as good or better than anything they have done in the past.

By: Eva

Eva — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:40:46 +0000

Agree in every way. It’s good, but a definite disappointment, even if only because I know they can do so much better.

By: Trevor Bivens

Trevor Bivens — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:38:52 +0000

I went to pick up the special edition after work(it was 17 where I work at) and Best Buy was sold out. I was so mad. Haha. They should get some more in in a couple of days though. But I’m not paying 17 for it when I can get it for 10.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:19:55 +0000

Absolutely Agree with every part of this review, Love “Cities”, but I don’t feel it will have close to the staying power that NTFP did with me, that is easily one of my favorite albums ever, this may just be one of my faves of 2007.

By: John Andringa

John Andringa — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:22:15 +0000

Well it seems that it is not going to be as good as I thought from what you are saying. I was a massive fan of Never Take Friendship Personal. I enjoyed the few songs that they relesed early on myspace and purevolume, but since Cities doesn’t come out until tommorow and it takes forever for Amazon to mail things I will just hope that I can wait that long to see for myself.

By: Julie Watanabe

Julie Watanabe — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:53:56 +0000

John, if you can’t wait and want to decide for yourself right now you should head over to the band’s myspace page. Anberlin are streaming all of Cities this week.
http://www.myspace.com/anberlin

By: Bryce Jacobson

Bryce Jacobson — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:18:03 +0000

I know where you’re coming from. I like this album a lot, some songs are skippable, some I want to listen to over and over again. NTFP was a great album and this one is better in many ways, but I only hope that they make something even better in the future. For me this gets a solid 9.0.