The Moon Is Down is the debut album by the Pompano Beach, Florida

Pompano Beach, Florida

Pompano Beach ) is a city in Broward County, Florida, along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean just to the north of Fort Lauderdale. The nearby Hillsboro Inlet forms part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 99,845...

 rock

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 band Further Seems Forever

Further Seems Forever

Further Seems Forever is an American rock band formed in 1998 in Pompano Beach, Florida and disbanded in 2006. Over the course of their career the band experienced several lineup changes, resulting in a different lead vocalist performing on each of their three studio albums...

, released in 2001 by Tooth & Nail Records

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. It was the band's first full-length album and their only album with original vocalist Chris Carrabba

Chris Carrabba

Christopher Ender Carrabba is the lead singer and guitarist of the band Dashboard Confessional, and is the vocalist for the American emo/indie rock band Further Seems Forever.-Biography:...

 and guitarist Nick Dominguez. Carrabba had already decided to leave the band to focus on his new project, Dashboard Confessional

Dashboard Confessional

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, but joined them in the studio to record the album. Dominguez left the band the following year to start the record label Pop Up Records. The two were replaced by Jason Gleason and Derick Cordoba, respectively, for the band's next album How to Start a Fire

How to Start a Fire

How to Start a Fire is the second album by the Pompano Beach, Florida rock band Further Seems Forever, released in 2003 by Tooth & Nail Records. It was the band's only album with vocalist Jason Gleason, who had replaced original singer Chris Carrabba when the latter left the band to focus on his...

. A music video

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 was filmed for the song "Snowbirds and Townies."

Reception

Rick Anderson of Allmusic rated The Moon Is Down four stars out of five, saying that it "kind of sneaks up on you. At first, as the title track eases crunchily through its first minute, you say to yourself, 'Oh, great, another emo band that has lots of deep feelings but can't be bothered to write a tune or impose any kind of structure on its songs.' Then the chorus hits ... Cathartic, tuneful, soaring — what are they going to do for the rest of the album? Well, it turns out they're going to do the same thing, over and over, with occasional digressions into triple meter. But although the conceit remains pretty much the same, it doesn't ever get tiresome; this band's ability to combine relatively dense guitar rock with an edge of experimentalism and a deep undertow of emotional uplift is more than just impressive — it's practically inspiring."

Track listing

All songs written by Further Seems Forever except where indicated

1. "The Moon Is Down" - 3:12
2. "The Bradley" - 3:01
3. "Snowbirds and Townies" - 4:26
4. "Monachetti" - 2:42
5. "Madison Prep" - 2:54
6. "New Year's Project" - 4:14
7. "Just Until Sundown" (Further Seems Forever/Matthew Ian Fox) - 3:14
8. "Pictures of Shorelines" - 3:12
9. "Wearing Thin" - 2:59
10. "A New Desert Life"/untitled hidden track - 8:52
11. "Say It Ain't So
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    "* (Rivers Cuomo
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    ; originally performed by Weezer
    Weezer
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    ) - 4:03
12. "Vengeance Factor"** - 2:46

*Included on the vinyl LP

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 release only.

**Included on the Japanese import version of the album only.

Performers

• Chris Carrabba
  Chris Carrabba
  Christopher Ender Carrabba is the lead singer and guitarist of the band Dashboard Confessional, and is the vocalist for the American emo/indie rock band Further Seems Forever.-Biography:...
  
   - vocals
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• Josh Colbert - guitar
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• Nick Dominguez - guitar
• Chad Neptune - bass
  Bass guitar
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• Steve Kleisath
  Steve Kleisath
  Steve Kleisath is an American musician. has been a drummer for PULL, Strongarm, Shai Hulud, Further Seems Forever, and En Masse.He is a professional poker player. and also the #5 Ms...
  
   - drums
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• James Paul Wisner - keys
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Album information

• Record label: Tooth & Nail Records
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• Recorded September 28-November 1, 2000 at Wisner Productions. Drum tracks recorded at The Dungeon.
• Produced and engineered by James Paul Wisner.
• Assistant engineer: Joe at The Dungeon.
• Design by Mark Owens.
• Photography by Dan Ellis.