Current Release: April 28th, 2009 | Vol. XXX Iss. 10

CD review: Gym Class Heroes new album,  The Quilt, has a different sound while maintaining the same quality

By Cody Kloock

kjkloock@vwc.edu

Gym Class Heroes is back with their fourth studio album,  The Quilt. Their new album is a big leap forward from their last album,  As Cruel As School Children, which was released in 2006.

 The Quilt is musically different from anything else that Gym Class has come out with, unless you count their earlier stuff back in the nineties. The album has a more hip-hop feel to it than  As Cruel As School Children did, but still retains the perfect balance that Gym Class Heroes is known for.

Something else that was much different on this album was the presence of multiple collaborations, such as several tracks with The Dream.  The Cookie Jar is one of the albums pre-released tracks that became popular on the band s MySpace and official website.

The most notable tracks are  Home , which opens with an epic guitar solo, displaying guitarist Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo s skills as an instrumentalist. The track that stood out most was  Don t Tell Me It s Over.

The CD was produced in most part by Patrick Stump, lead singer and guitarist of Fall Out Boy, who worked with the band on their song  Cupid s Chokehold and got them their deal with Decaydance Records.

The 16 tracks of pure musical genius are an excellent display of front man Travis McCoy s evolution as a lyrical mastermind.