TRACKLIST

1. Tired Eyes  2. Snowblind (VIDEO)  3. Subdued  4. The Queen of Nothing  5. Halos  6. Unsung (VIDEO)  7. The Hours You Keep  8. Marina  9. You'll Catch Your Death 10. Xs On Your Eyes 11. Flight Data Recorder

REVIEW
+/- (pronounced simply Plus/Minus) is probably one of the most underrated indie bands out there with their already stellar catalog while Xs On Your Eyes marks the bands fourth album. This time around the band has reduced some of their synthesizers & programmed drum beats and relied upon the live musicianship of the group. This direction suits +/- and creates a very vibrant sound throughout Xs On Your Eyes. You would think this cohesiveness would be hard to achieve because over the last two years 2/3 of the trio enlarged their families as Patrick Ramos had twins in late 06 and James Baluyut became a father for the first time last year while drummer Chris Deaner has spent that time as the touring drummer for Kelly Clarkson. What +/- missed in quality time together they clearly gained in life experience because Xs On Your Eyes comes off completely mature and should be more accessible to a wider audience with its strong harmonic indie appeal. The key element of the live instrumentation is that the band did not entirely loose the "Postal Service" like beats but found a way to perfectly balance them into the mix while developing a larger and more personal sound on the way to creating one of their best albums to date.

SPOILER!

CODE Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008 EAC extraction logfile from 21. December 2008, 21:00 +/- {Plus/Minus} / Xs on Your Eyes Used drive  : PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-216  Adapter: 1  ID: 0 Read mode              : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache      : Yes Make use of C2 pointers : No Read offset correction                      : 96 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks  : No Null samples used in CRC calculations      : Yes Used interface                              : Installed external ASPI interface Gap handling                                : Appended to previous track Used output format              : User Defined Encoder Selected bitrate                : 128 kBit/s Quality                        : High Add ID3 tag                    : No Command line compressor        : C:\Programmi\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %s TOC of the extracted CD     Track |  Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector     ---------------------------------------------------------         1  |  0:00.00 |  5:05.49 |        0    |    22923          2  |  5:05.49 |  4:31.37 |    22924    |    43285          3  |  9:37.11 |  4:10.43 |    43286    |    62078          4  | 13:47.54 |  5:18.73 |    62079    |    86001          5  | 19:06.52 |  3:07.31 |    86002    |  100057          6  | 22:14.08 |  2:55.42 |    100058    |  113224          7  | 25:09.50 |  4:07.01 |    113225    |  131750          8  | 29:16.51 |  4:02.56 |    131751    |  149956          9  | 33:19.32 |  4:41.44 |    149957    |  171075        10  | 38:01.01 |  4:08.01 |    171076    |  189676        11  | 42:09.02 |  5:36.34 |    189677    |  214910  Track  1     Filename E:\CDRip\01 - Tired Eyes.wav     Pre-gap length  0:00:02.00     Peak level 96.1 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 8432DA47     Copy CRC 8432DA47     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track  2     Filename E:\CDRip\02 - Snowblind.wav     Peak level 96.0 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 2D975E16     Copy CRC 2D975E16     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track  3     Filename E:\CDRip\03 - Subdued.wav     Peak level 96.1 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 9694ABE6     Copy CRC 9694ABE6     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track  4     Filename E:\CDRip\04 - The Queen of Nothing.wav     Peak level 96.1 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 9E08F708     Copy CRC 9E08F708     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track  5     Filename E:\CDRip\05 - Halos.wav     Peak level 96.1 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 07271065     Copy CRC 07271065     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track  6     Filename E:\CDRip\06 - Unsung.wav     Peak level 96.0 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 53F8B118     Copy CRC 53F8B118     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track  7     Filename E:\CDRip\07 - The Hours You Keep.wav     Peak level 96.0 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 663FE2BE     Copy CRC 663FE2BE     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track  8     Filename E:\CDRip\08 - Marina.wav     Peak level 95.5 %     Track quality 99.9 %     Test CRC AC4C41D4     Copy CRC AC4C41D4     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track  9     Filename E:\CDRip\09 - You'll Catch Your Death.wav     Peak level 96.1 %     Track quality 99.9 %     Test CRC 0099E35F     Copy CRC 0099E35F     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track 10     Filename E:\CDRip\10 - Xs on Your Eyes.wav     Peak level 96.2 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC C138ED9E     Copy CRC C138ED9E     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK Track 11     Filename E:\CDRip\11 - Flight Data Recorder.wav     Peak level 96.2 %     Track quality 100.0 %     Test CRC 2311B429     Copy CRC 2311B429     Track not present in AccurateRip database     Copy OK None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database No errors occurred End of status report