“Flashlight,” the opening song on New Jersey’s Front Bottoms impressive self-titled debut album, starts like many an opening track on countless albums past. An acoustic guitar is strummed for a few seconds before he music kicks in. Once it does here, we are off on one of the most unique albums I have heard in a while. The opening lyric let’s you know what you’re in for; “Please fall asleep so I could take pictures of you and hang them in my room/ so when I wake up feel like yeah everything is all right.” Lead singer and guitarist Brian Sella sings these words with the kind of desperation that you have at the age where things are starting to get serious.
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