Tooth & Nail Records
2006
A Small Noise
About This Album
Being billed as a "best-of" compilation for the Juliana Theory, A Small Noise is not exactly the career-spanning collection of hits that listeners might expect. Thus, to serve as a better album guide, this record shall henceforth be titled, at least for this review, "Best of the Juliana Theory: The Tooth and Nail Years (1999-2001)." After all, songs from only three of the band's previous releases are accounted for here, and all three -- Understand This Is a Dream, Emotion Is Dead, and the EP, Music from Another Room -- were released during their time with Tooth and Nail. If one can look past the slight detail that Love and Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat are ignored altogether, this track listing isn't necessarily a bad thing -- after all, some of the Theory's most-loved songs came out of these earlier albums -- it's just a bit limited. Moving past this discrepancy, the tracks are situated on the record in chronological order per album and all the expected contenders are present. Hard-hitting rockers like "To the Tune of 5,000 Screaming Children" and "If I Told You This Was Killing Me, Would You Stop?" highlight exploding drumbeats and searing guitars, while "Duane Joseph" and "Breathing By Wires," among others, showcase Brett Detar's powerful vocals.
Track List (try tracks 1,3,5,6,7 and 8)

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