Sorority Noise "No Halo" Track review and cover of Brand New's "Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis"

Sorority Noise will be releasing their newest record, You're Not As ___ As You Think, on March 17 via Triple Crown Records. The band's first single, "No Halo" is an intimate and heart wrenching song about dealing with the passing of a friend, something I can personally relate to all too much and too often. The song starts off with an upbeat guitar line reminiscent of some of the best early 2000's emo acts like Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. Cam Boucher finds himself set in the emotional turmoil of dealing with loss of a friend and not being able to be there and battling the urge to leave himself as he sings, "When God called you to fulfill a vacancy I tried to see why it wasn't me."
In my opinion this is the strongest and most vulnerable I have seen the band thus far and I thank you for that , Cam.
Keep on!



I mentioned Brand New earlier and it fits perfectly as Sorority Noise just released a cover of "Me vs. Maradona vs. Elvis" for the purpose of getting people involved and to donate to the ACLU. The cover is a beautifully haunting stripped down version that Cam is so good at producing, and it just so happens to be one of my favorite Brand New tracks.



Both of Cam's bands, Sorority Noise and Old Gray will be donating all proceeds from sales on their bandcamp to the ACLU. Please make sure to donate and buy yourself some great music from great humans in this critical time in our existence. Also make sure to go see Cam perform with Jeff Rosenstock, Ben Hopkins of PWR BTTM, and Eskimeaux in Brooklyn on February 3 to benefit CAIR-NY (Council on American-Islamic Relations).

Sorority Noise "It Kindly Stopped For Me" Review

Sorority Noise's It Kindly Stopped For Me comes out Friday on Topshelf Records but it's streaming now in its entirety over at The Fader. To call the record vulnerable would be an understatement. Singer Cam Boucher told The Fader that after the songs were sent off to the plant that he thought maybe they shouldn't be released. 

This record hits home for me in so many ways. Being from the same hometown and experiencing my fare share of friends deaths and depression, these songs and Cam's honest approach to these situations gives me chills and the feeling that even the worst situations and feelings can turn into something beautiful. 

It Kindly Stopped For Me is tragic and beautiful, and so honest and vulnerable, like I mentioned before. Songs like "Either Way," with that beautiful rolling guitar line and an honest look at suicide and death, and "Fource," which sounds as though Cam wrote the music and then went walking in the woods and recorded the vocal parts on his phone as they came. It's raw, it's real. 

Honesty in music is something special. In an industry filled with recycled bullshit and trends that come and die in a single breath, Sorority Noise is sincerity. 

It Kindly Stopped For Me comes out April 22 on Topshelf Records.

You can still catch the band on tour now!