Promise Ring

See also: Cap'n Jazz

Album reviews

Wood/Water
Anti (2002)
Wood/Water's amped-up production doesn't really sync up with the group's writing.

Electric Pink
Jade Tree (2000)
All good things must come to an end. The Braves' winning streak. The supply of Diet Coke in the vending machines downstairs from my dorm room. The production of new episodes of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

Very Emergency
Jade Tree (1999)
So much has been written by reviewers (and in profoundly disparate publications) about the forthcoming industry commodification of "emo bands" that it hardly seems worth talking about - even with the advent of the album which most have preliminarily noted as having the greatest potentiality to spark such an event.

Boys + Girls
Jade Tree (1998)
Christ! Why can't I get these songs out of my head? They're stripped down, thoughtful, fuzzy, warm, fey, sentimental pop. It couldn't be that I really like this stuff -- could it?