Dispatch Album: “Four-Day Trials [Bonus Tracks]”

This is a great cd. It contains great acoustic and electric jams, and is a mix funk-acoustic-jamming-reggae groove music. I recomend this album to any who likes to listen to skilled musicians and catchy harmonies. These band members play multiple instruments, and write their own songs and lyrics. If you like DMB, Phish, Guster, or Sublime you'll love this bands mix of styles and play this cd over and over.

This album is a collection of live in studio, first takes, and fully produced tracks, recorded over a period of 4 days. It captures the escence of Dispatch, their live, jammy sound. Included is a cover of the Beastie Boy's root down, which is much better then the original version. If you like music, you will like this album. You would probably also like it if you like shiny, plastic things.

I recently discovered Dispatch while reading an article in Esquire. Music is a huge part of my life and when I got the, "Last Dispatch" cd/dvd set, I was BLOWN away by these guys and their talent. I proceeded to get everything they put out and each one was amazing. I wish I could see their benefit for Zimbabwe concert in Madison Square Garden in July of this year, but it is a long way to the Garden from here! I had the opportunity to see State Radio last week. It is a spinoff band with the front man being Chad Urmston from Dispatch. It was good, but Dispatch is/was, simply magic together. The voices and lyrics and instrumentation is superb on their cds. I have them all, and I listen to Dispatch 24/7 now and probably will for some time to come, as this sound never gets tiresome. So I must say this band is awesome and no matter which cds you get you won't be disappointed.

I have all of dispatch's albums, and although this is not the best one, in my view (silent steeples and bang bang, their first two, more accoustic albums were the best) it's still a great album. It was recorded live November 19-22 a few years ago in the studio, and has somre really fun songs. A great addition to your collection!