Look Mexico

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Tallahassee's Look Mexico showed a lot of potential on their 2007 album This Is Animal Music, the kind of potential that frustrated me. Don't get me wrong, the music was wonderful with its angular guitar parts and mathy American Football-reminiscent stop/starts, but I thought the overall feel of the album was one of a young band still searching for an identity. That's okay, because the band is very young. After undergoing a few lineup changes, the band is back with a new EP entitled Gasp, Asp, and it shows noticeable progression. The band seems to have set aside the playful/fun (yet somewhat adolescent) feel of their debut full-length for a newfound measure of maturity. While This Is Animal Music had plenty of memorable moments, it seemed thematically thin at times. Gasp, Asp is both lyrically and sonically superior to any of the band's past material. With nods to post-punk and math-rock, Gasp, Asp is the sound of a band that's growing up, and if it's a precursor of things to come then we're all in for a treat. -- Capt. Obvious

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MP3: Look Mexico - You're Not Afraid Of The Dark Are You?

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