If you like Hit The Lights, Fireworks, Four Year Strong and Me vs Hero you are going to love this band. Mixing all the best pop-punk melodies with a few heavier bits scattered in for good measure, this is among the best unsigned EPs I’ve heard in quite some time. True, it doesn’t re-invent the wheel and it does nothing new, but with a clutch of songs as good as ‘Everything Down’ and ‘Look Up, Look Out’ who needs to be original?
Not as heavy as bands like FYS or MvH, there are still heavier elements to TCR’s songs. The intro to ‘With All The Right Intentions’ will get the blood pumping – and that’s before the sweet vocals kick in with some of the best melodies you’ll hear all year. Remember that feeling when you first heard the debut Hit The Lights EP? You’ll get that same feeling here. It’s not a question if The Crosstown Rivalry will make it big, more when. Get onto these boys now because they will be huge in 2009.