Another KC Crank! release, this one featuring emo sweethearts, Christie Front Drive, who are from Denver...and great, but makes little or no sense to discuss their tunes here.
The B-Side to this EP features early works by Kansas City's Boys Life. Both Christie Front Drive and Boys Life went to Omaha for the tracks to be recorded and were produced by AJ and Mike Moogis. Midwestern emo scene in it's early days as the Moogis brothers would go onto to do things with their hometown label, Saddle Creek, namely, Cursive and Bright Eyes. Boys Life would set influence, Christie Front Drive's work would go onto to help define the scene (see the song "Valentine" on this EP).
This early stuff by Boys Life is a bit more melodic than the stuff they'd later do on their full length. Still chaotic, just not as outright DC as the debut became. "Sight Unseen" is incredible. The song "Homecoming" shows the band noodling around with out of tune guitars and time shifts, it's not perfected here like it would be later and it loses the listener in the end. "Two Wheeled Train" is a bit slow and spends too much time figuring out what it should do. The band's ideas are here, they just needed Mark Trombino to focus them on their best attributes which he was able to do on the debut LP.
Another KC tidbit, the sleeve is screen printed and designed as a fold able jacket. It was done by Hammer Press in Kansas City, which was a former college roommate of the guys from Giants Chair.
Sight Unseen
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