More Songs From Vagabondia Review
Taken from The Other Paper (May 9, 2002)

A Tribute to the Cusacks

John Cusack played a record store nerd in the 2000 adaptation of Nick Hornbys book High Fidelity. Cusacks character was very fond of showing off his musical knowledge with elaborate top fiveElists.

With that in mind, The Other Paper proudly presents The Top Five Reasons to Buy the new Cusacks record, More Songs from Vagabondia."

1. The music.

Vagabondia is a vast departure from the bands first record, Waxing the Scene. The former was a distortion-filled piece of pop punk; the new one sounds a lot like Loves Forever Changes with some latter-day Beach Boys and Beatles thrown in for good measure. Actually, it sounds a lot like whats coming out of Georgias Elephant 6 collective, only good.

2. The lyrics.

Any great album needs great lyrics Eno problem with Vagabondia. The best example is the ultra-catchy Boy With Hearts for Hands: Each verse begins with a shouted letter, with the letters spelling out HeartsEby the end. Then the chorus comes in with Nobody understands/ The boy has hearts for hands/ nobody understands/ he doesnt have any friends."

3. The art.

4. The sequencing.

Indie-rock authority Robert Pollard once said that the only things necessary for a great album were art and sequencing. The artwork on Vagabondia is excellent, featuring pipe organs, a priestly choir and boats on the open sea. The sequencing is flawless Etheres a real flow to Vagabondia, with the songs blending from track to track.

5. Its just a good album.

Seriously. Its just a good album. And theres not no many of those coming from Columbus these days.
The Cusacks will play More Songs from Vagabondia in its entirety at the bands record release party Saturday night at Bernies.