Let's do some algebra. C = Chaos, M = Instruments, and A = Amazing.
C+(MA)=12
Why 12 you ask? Simply because The Number 12 Looks Like You is all of that with so much more. If all those variables were equlivent to what I claim they mean, then I must make them sound like a pretty good band. Well, good for you if you understand basic high school math. But all of the brain-pounding school stuff aside, you pretty much cannot go wrong with #12.
When I was talking to my friend on AIM, his icon showed a bunch of penguins and said "The Number 12 Looks Like You". At first I thought he was calling me fat, then he explained that it was a really great band. Boy howdy was he right. After Christian Padron told me about them, I got "Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses". It seemed all to similar to me until I heard Nuclear.Sad.Nuclear. Lemme finish this paragraph by stating that this album is Godly.
The Number 12 Looks Like You are unlike anything you have ever heard. They are a grind band, but before you yell at me for saying that, it's my opinion. So if you want to call them "metalcore" or something else, go ahead. But anyways, the band can scream and play music, and do it well. We all know that other bands like Silverstein attempt to have rhtyhmic songs with screaming in them, but they fail miserably. But what #12 does that is so different from other bands in it's type, is fuse a bunch of different possible genres. You'll hear the speedy acoustic guitar in "The Devils D
ick Disaster", or the seven minute ambient track "Rememberance Diologue". Another big thing that crosses the line for bands in #12's genre would be the fact that they could pull a 3-5 minute song. When most "grind" bands try to do this, you are screaming "get me the fu
ck out of this track already!" But when #12 try to pull a five minute-er, they pass with flying colors.
Another classic thing done by #12 is the duel vocals. This is very apparent on the track "Like A Cat". It's really cool to hear one person scream in your left earphone, then the right, then left again. That kind of thing puts me in adrenaline mode. It makes you want to drive a car 90mph on the highway on the wrong side of the road. The bass lines that #12 pull are also class. Though the lyrics are nothing to write home about, but do you really care when you can only understand 11 out of 1440 words on the album.
If you want to test out the band, you can get a couple of songs. My personal favorites include, "The Devils Dick Disaster", "Clarissa Explains Cuntainment", or even "Catagory". The first of these has an infectious opening strum on an acoustic guitar. It sounds like a mexican gunfight is ready to go down, but then you get tossed into the chaotic maddness that is #12. Clarissa is one of those tracks that is just plain weird, but I love ever second of it. The first verse comes in, then it's kind of like a minor instrumental up until a minute passes. Oddly written, but beautiful in every way. Catagory is the proof that The Number 12 can pull off a five minute song. It is the craziness, then a nice little acoustic outro. It is all ever so sweet.
Compared to the bands last cd, "Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses", NSN would have to be better. The last album was just too generic, and gave me dark visions for this bands future. I thought they would just float into musical nothing-ness, like Savage Garden (Where in the eff did they go?). Nuclear.Sad.Nuclear is definitley the bands best music performance thusfar. It is also one of my favorite albums of all time. I also feel that this was in the Top 5 albums from 2005.
Dylan: The number 12 looks like you.
Jessica: Mom! Dylan won't stop teasing me.
