Cruiserweight

Siblings always have the best harmony--in music, at least. Cruiserweight is made up of three siblings and a friend, and the band tackles the peppy, ultra-harmonic genre of pop/punk with better-than-average results. After moving from Terrell and Dallas to Austin, the band found a larger fan base and followed up...

By Merritt Martin

March 10, 2005

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Siblings always have the best harmony--in music, at least. Cruiserweight is made up of three siblings and a friend, and the band tackles the peppy, ultra-harmonic genre of pop/punk with better-than-average results. After moving from Terrell and Dallas to Austin, the band found a larger fan base and followed up its EP this will undoubtedly come out wrong with Secret Weaponry. It's a strong album, from the rocking opener "Vermont" to "Goodbye Daily Sadness," the perfect motivational track before a night on the town, to "Permanent Things," rife with those tight-knit familial harmonies. Their confident, spunky and sometimes comedic stage presence translates well onto the album, so it's a little hard to understand why they had such a tough go of it in Dallas. No room in this town for girl singers or pop/punk that doesn't sound derivative and dumb? Cruiserweight has their influences--from the Descendents to Save Ferris to even Fleetwood Mac--but they are a band all their own.

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Merritt Martin has written for the Dallas Observer for over two decades. She has also contributed to Eater, DMN and USA Today. In addition to arts and culture writing, she spends entirely too much time extolling the virtues of pears, black clothing, and her cat Kenneth.

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