Falling Up Album: “Exit Lights”

Unlike many people, I don't actually like Falling Up. My two best friends and my little brother on the other hand, practically worship them. When Exit Lights came out, I was completely certain that I'd hate it, so you can imagine my surprise when I listened to the first fifteen seconds of Islander and immediately asked Kristin if I could borrow it. Alas, I had to return it to her yesterday, but that only means that I have to go shopping in a few hours and buy the CD for myself.

Remixes suck, you say? Believe me, I couldn't agree with you MORE.

Is this one any good? HELL. YES.

Don't like remixes? Buy Exit Lights anyways.

Loathe Falling Up with a passion? Buy the dang CD anyway!!!!

I promise you, you'll be blown away. As another reviewer mentioned, Falling Up actually DID remix their songs. The tempo, music, and vocals are all exquisit and far better than the originals (in my opinion). If you enjoy listening to songs that have clean lyrics, addictive beats, and brilliant music, I encourage you to look up this CD.

I have to agree with Mel on this one, most remixes aren't worth the time or money, but Falling Up managed to beat the system by putting out a remix cd that, in my opinion, manages to improve on the originals. The sound is an organic mix of industrial/electronic, rock, and hip-hop with a melodic soul.

The collaborations add a neat touch to this CD. Solomon Olds from Family Force 5 blends a little of his groups sound into "Moonlit" to good effect. Rachel Lampa lends her amazing voice to "Exhibition" (I've never cared for her own stuff, but man, she sounds incredible with Falling Up). An artist I'd never heard of before, Troma, shows up in "Fearless" along with Trevor McNevan from Thousand Foot Krutch and FM Static, which brings me to the one major low point of this album.

If "Fearless" hadn't started off with so much promise, I wouldn't even be mentioning it. But it really had the makings of an incredible song. I really liked what they did with Troma's guest part, and even Trevor's rap could have been made to work. But what it felt like when the song ended the first time I listened to it was that I was looking at the pieces to a masterpiece still sitting on the workbench. Still, for that to be the one low point on the whole CD, I'd say they're still doing pretty good.

I remember hearing some of the band members talk about how they try to write their music as if they were writing a sound track to their own lives, and to me that's how this CD comes off. It's one of my favorites to pop in while driving, running, working on a project, etc. Great "doing stuff" music.

Exit Lights isn't just a good remix CD. It's just plain good music. Go get it. Now. Run, don't walk. You can thank me later.

I have enjoyed Falling Up's music since Crashings came out, and Exit Lights is a great album, with remixes and a few new tracks. I have to say that my favorite song is "Islander," which is the first track, but I thoroughly enjoy the entire album. And it's even better because of the price I got it for on amazon.

Yeah, I know this isn't an in depth review, but this CD is great! Its better than their previous cd, and just barely better than Crashings - remixes of many of the old songs make them so much better.

My personal favorites are the remixes of Broken Heart and Fearless.