the green light go

Green Light Go is one of C-U’s hardest working bands. They play more shows than most; many of the members are scene veterans, and it’s all starting to show. The band’s hot-off-the-presses new EP (released last Friday, January 21, at the band’s Nargile show) finds it a step up from past recording samples. As much as GLG gets pinned as a pop-punk band (it’s partially true), the rollicking beats and emotive output of these songs--especially “Try To Say No”--echo a balance between glitzy pop, punk and the latter’s bastard child, emo (the haphazard background screaming, noodling guitar work, love for crunchy harmonics--it’s all there). At the end of the day, the best comparison is really to former scenesters Sarge, whose clearly punk-influenced compositions were popped-down to, love-‘em or hate-‘em, really catchy songs. Whatever you want to call it, GLG delivers an EP of four songs ripe for the sing-along, the band already showing a vast maturation in its young existence.

-- Zack Adcock