Customer Reviews
Awesome CD (if you skip the 1st song) 
2008-09-15
Okay, the 1st song on this CD is one of the worst songs ever. One line repeated over and over---it makes me want to bash my head against a wall. I loved their last CD, but had sworn off this one b/c I had just heard the 1st song---terrible, one of the worst!
Fortunately, I recently gave the rest of the CD a listen, decided to purchase it, and love it! The rest of the songs are so good...especially "No One's Gonna Love You" and "Marry Song." Beautiful songs, beautiful harmonies! I wish they hadn't done the 1st song b/c it almost ruined the CD for me---just play the CD and skip track 1.
Lacks 
2008-08-19
Band of Horses is a band that you can easily fall in love with. Theyre all skinny bearded boys who sing in falsetto and play beautiful post rock country songs. However, this album, lacks the generosity that the previous S/T album gave. I would strongly urge you, reader, to listen to that one above this record.
Great band that I never knew about! 
2008-08-12
I am a fan of indie / folk music such as Hayden, Richard Buckner, Mark Kozelek (of Red House Painters / Sun Kil Moon) and Kathleen Edwards, just for a sample of my music tastes... This band is growing on me more and more with every listen of the music that I have found so far.
I fully expect to attend a concert of theirs in the future. It's best described in my own words as a sound of "The Shins" mixed in with "Coldplay" with a dash of "Racounters"...Very good!
wonderful sounds 2008-08-09
Simply gorgeous music and vocals. Listened to this while driving through the Ohio countryside and lounging at the campfire. I love this. Just buy it now... you need it.
The highest compliment I can give 2008-07-31
This album is the best thing I've heard since the Shins' Chutes Too Narrow. Praise does not get any higher than that. Simply stunning.
I was wrong about Band of Horses 2008-07-27
Released in March of 2006, Band of Horses debut Everything All the Time made good on the
promise hinted at in their early shows and demos. The band went from early shows opening for
friends Iron & Wine, to playing on The Late Show with David Letterman by July, and being nominated
as one of ten finalists (along with Joanna Newsom, Beirut, Tom Waits, and, the eventual winner,
Cat Power) for the Shortlist Music Prize for that same year. And the record was well-received
critically, with celebratory press in Spin, Entertainment Weekly, NY Times, Harp, Billboard, Pitchfork,
Magnet, NME, Uncut, and a slew of others. Not a bad place to start.
For a lot of reasons, Cease to Begin is the perfect title for this new record. Not only do the
songs themselves weave this theme through the record, but stopping and starting anew is also
a reflection of the past year and a half for Band of Horses. Though they worked with producer
Phil Ek again, as they did on Everything All the Time, much has changed between the fairly
recent then and now. There have been band members who have come and gone, including Mat
Brooke, who left the band to pursue other interests and his own band. For core members Ben
Bridwell, Rob Hampton and Creighton Barrett, there has been a move from Seattle, WA to Mt.
Pleasant, SC, a relocation that had been planned for some time so that they could all be closer
to their families. And, close friends and family have come and gone some far too early. Necessarily
shot through with these experiences, the songs on Cease to Begin are strikingly beautiful, if less
elliptical and more straightforward, with more sophisticated arrangements than the last record.
Can't Begin to say how much I enjoy this album 2008-06-26
This album has been in heavy rotation on my iPod now for months. It's a great set of songs with a dreamy indie-rock sound along the lines of Built To Spill or My Morning Jacket. There's a bit of a 70's revivalist sound going on here too, with guitar driven melodies and 70's rock influences throughout, but that only make me like it more. The opening song "Ghost in My House" is one of my favorite songs in recent years by any band. I can't put my finger on why I enjoy this album so much, but it's enough just to know I do.
Lyrically naive and a guitar driven Supertramp sound. 2008-06-24
Much like Supertramp...I thought they were good musicians and decent vocalists. Lyrically, to me, there is nothing new here. There is the usual post-Nirvana slamming over the head with cymbals and driving digitized guitar tones that try to convince us that they have balls. They don't. The vocalist is effective but, he reminds me so much of Roger Hodgson from early-Supertramp, that I can't get past it.
I really, really, wanted to enjoy this CD. (Still do). Maybe it will grow on me. But for now, I'm not into it at all.
I've heard it all before. In so many places and arenas.
late 70's /80's mainstream rock... 2008-06-14
This is EXACTLY the same thing as REO Speedwagon -- except with beards and an updated fashion sense. This is not 'indie' in any sense of the word, it is mainstream in every way. The best thing about B0H tour was that they brought Cass McCombs and Band on several U.S. dates. Band of Horses aren't evil or anything, just not particularly interesting, either.
Excellent Indie Rock 2008-05-29
First up I'm not a huge indie rock fan...I'm not even sure what the definition of indie rock is other than you can't be on a major record label. Anyway, to the review. This is an excellent CD. Most of the tunes are slow or mid-tempo but that's cool. Songs like "Is There a Ghost" and "No Ones Gonna Love You" have a haunting, dreamlike quality to them. "The General Specific" sounds like backporch bluegrass. "Marry Song" is a nice bluesy number. "Window Blues" is just a flat out beautiful ballad. All in all a very solid release.
