Track Listing
1. Vices
2. Bed
3. At the Bottom
4. Gasoline
5. You Stole
6. Be Gone
7. Sink
8. Bought a Bride
9. Daisy
10. In a Jar
11. Noro

Bonus Tracks
12. At the Bottom (Acoustic)
13. Bed (Acoustic; with iTunes purchase)
13. Bought a Bride (Acoustic; with Amazon purchase)

Okay, September 22, 2009 Brand New releases their fourth album Daisy. It's all I have been listening to for the past two days while playing Halo 3: ODST.

Brand New has been a really great band ever since their first album Your Favorite Weapon, which is one of my favorite albums of all time. However if you listen two Your Favorite Weapon and then listen to Daisy, it is pretty hard to tell that it is the same band. With each new album their music evolves. In Your Favorite Weapon it was straight up punk rock/pop punk whatever you want to call it. Fast paced music. Great stuff.

Their second album, Deja Entendu, sounds absolutely nothing like the first. That's not a bad thing, I love Deja Entendu. The songs are more slowed down, more mellow, and mature.

Then the third album rolls around. The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me. It sounds a little similiar to Deja Entendu, but with some of their songs sounding post-hardcore, with Jesse Lacey screaming into the microphone.

I don't know, I'm not great at describing the music I like so this is difficult for me. But what can I say about Daisy?

Well, there is a delightful looking dog on the cover that gives me nightmares. There are some songs, too. It sounds like a good successor to TDAG. I'm not going to individually review each song on the album, but I will pick out my favorites.

Vices is the first song. For about half of the song there is some lady singing. It sounds kind of sad and it gives a pretty gloomy picture too and I feel like playing Bioshock whenever I listen to it. The second half is a fast paced borderline post-hardcore. Än extremely catchy song. "Just say goodbye to the ground and JUMP."

You Stole is the slowest song on the album, but I dig it. The lyrics are decent. See, that's all I can think of. I don't know how to analyze songs. It's good, what else do you want from me?

Bed is a pretty interesting song. I'm only point this song out because there is a lot of speculation that this song was made after the movie Fight Club, but I don't know about that. Sure enough there is some lines in the song that may reference the movie such as "I don't want to ever go to bed", which references Ed Norton's character's insomnia. "Turn to vapor and float away", possibly referencing Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden who isn't real but rather Ed Norton's character's alter ego. And of course, "And we got into a bad fight", but that could reference anything. Just because there is fighting in the movie Fight Club (go figure) doesn't mean it has to reference it. Those were just from the first stanza of the song alone, there is a few more but I'm bored of talking about this song now.

At the Bottom was the first and only single from the album so I'm pretty much sick of it since I listened to it 20 times if iTunes is to be believed. It's still a good song, though.

Be Gone is the instrumental of the album. Pretty freaky at times but it has a great beat. It has nothing on Welcome to Bang*** from TDAG but it's still good.

Noro is the last tong I'm going to comment on. It's the last song on the album and it closes with the same song that played at the beginning of Vices. Apperently the song at the beginning of Vices was only the beginning of that particular song, and at the end of Noro it's the same song but the end of it. Try to make some scence out of that.

Or just listen to the songs or even better buy it. Support the band. I know that bands only get 11% or some other made up number of profits, but do anything to help this band. Great bands like Houston Calls had to disband because of their **** labels and lack of profits. Bands like A Static Lullaby are getting their vans stolen with all their equipment in it. Seriously, do what you can to help out good bands like this. If you don't like buying albums because of corporate big wigs then just send the band a check right to their address.

It's only $9.99 on iTunes, don't pirate music. The industry is crippled because of ****s like The Millonaires or The Jonas Brothers. I admit that I downloaded the acoustic version of Bought a Bride, but I''m not buying the same album twice for just one song, Interscope Records.

Overall, great album. Listening to it as I type and will be listening to it after I'm done. Nothing's perfect, though. Some of the lyrics could have been better (Gasoline) but still a great purchase to add to your music collection.

4 creepy dogs out of 5.