Album: Sorry About Tomorrow Release Date: 3/12/2002 Length: 34:41 Label: Vagrant Records Rating: 7.3 |
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| Track Listing | |
| 1. The Pharmacist (2:37) | |
| 2. At Natures Mercy (3:30) | |
3. Radiation Suit (2:42)  |
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4. Safely (3:27)  |
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| 5. Now or Never (3:34) |
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| 6. Cool For One Night (3:41) |
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| 7. Knees (2:57) | |
| 8. Let's Go Home (2:46) | |
| 9. Consumed by Laziness (3:17) | |
| 10. Get What You Get (2:52) | |
| 11. The Night They Blew up the Moon (2:50) | |
| Review | |
| There’s nothing as disappointing as bringing home a band’s CD after you’ve heard their live show and being completely disappointed in how disenchanted they sound on the record. Where is the emotion? Where is the conviction they displayed while you were sweating it out in the pit listening to the band jam on their instruments? If you’ve seen bands live, you undoubtedly know just what I’m talking about. Luckily, this isn’t a problem at all for Hot Rod Circuit. And on this, the bands third full-length album, they’ve gotten even tighter as musicians than before. | |
| The band combines emotional lyrics with crunching guitar rhythms and solos that will leave your head reeling. It’s not often that you’ll find a band that can have such strong emotional conviction in their lyrics while maintaining a hard rock edge, and Hot Rod Circuit does it to near-perfection. | |
| The opening guitar on "The Pharmacist," for instance, a simple rhythm with the vocals strongly placed over it, is enough to get the listener interested. Once that mission is accomplished, you just strap yourself in for eleven tracks of excellent rock and roll. | |
| Of course, my opinion may be slightly skewed, what with me having seen the band in person, as I previously mentioned. If you’re ever given a chance to see HRC live, do not pass it up. The energy they exude on stage is nothing short of exhausting, even for the simple listener, and they’re into every little action they take up on the stage. The point I’m attempting to make is that this energy transfers right over to the album. You feel the band’s force blasting through your speakers, and you want to enjoy what they do so well. | |
| Back to the music at hand, however, HRC has constructed this album beautifully. You can clearly see where the album starts off softly and reaches it’s peak around "Cool For One Night" and then slowly climbs down and ends with a terrific track with an awful title in "The Night They Blew Up The Moon." It is this dedication to crafting a fine record that makes the band all the more enjoyable to listen to. | |
| Vocally, Hot Rod Circuit is fairly strong, as lead vocalist Andy Jackson often times sings with an equally impressive background support that drowns out the individuality in his voice, but overall, it is more than adequate. This is a band that lives and dies by its guitars, and its guitars are very good. | |
| Should you buy Sorry About Tomorrow? I would answer with a hearty "yes"! It’s not going to win any awards, but it’s a fun, loud emo-rock record that any fan of the genre would certainly enjoy. | |
| Rating: 7.3 | |
| - Dan Kricke |
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