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Laughing City

4.7 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

4.7 out of 5 stars
Best Sellers Rank #433,022 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
#37,540 in Alternative Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
#174,010 in Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
#186,604 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
Product Dimensions 5 x 5.75 x 0.45 inches; 2.83 ounces
Type of item Audio CD
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer No
Item Weight 2.83 ounces
Manufacturer Record Collection
Date First Available November 4, 2006

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2015
    Awesome!
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2003
    This is an extremely impressive EP -- if you like Radiohead, Coldplay, or other music of the likes, you can't go wrong with eisley!! Can't wait for a full length release!!
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2003
    okay, this is basically my third day since i have come into contact with the great music of eisley and i still can't get over them. don't let the fact that none of them are older than twenty-one (twenty-two on the eight of november) fool you into thinking that this is another industry fabricated teeny booper fad with out any real musical talent. these are trully amazing people (can't call them kids and not all of them are adults so... people). this ep is their first major label release and really holds some of the best songs i have heard in a while. it starts of with the love/longing track "I Wasn't Prepared." personally not the best one in the pack but that doesn't mean it is bad, its a really great song to hear when you just want to lay back or are feeling like life has thrown you a curve ball. the next track was one of the first songs i heard from them (since it along with #4, #5, and others are found online in a rough mix version). "Telescope Eyes" is a conversational song between two characters, one who feels that s/he is too good to be seen with the other (although it kind of seems like the rejected character might be two different people since in one line it speaks of a "big dress" and towards the end of the song it calls the rejected character "Dear Mathew...", ?). the guitar work on this track is just truly amazing and is trully one of their more moving tracks on the ep. it is more up beat than "I Wan't Prepared" but still sad in that it shows/reminds us how children can be (and "mature adults" too, even though they don't admit it). the third track is about as poppy as eisley gets. the intro drums and the accompaning keyboards to "Tree Tops" really give it a disney, childish feel to it, and the fact that it keeps talking about being on top of the tree tops with newly grown wings feeds the child story fact too. but don't think that it sounds like something you might hear mandy moore or another pop star that still has not switched over to the songs-for-children-looks-for-adults stage. it has a really catchy tune to it and what i believe is one of the best dream-like-floating-above-it-all sequences done with one of the girl's voice (stacy dupree) going "aahhhahhahah.." and her keyboard that just has to be about the best thing on this ep. the guitar work again keeps things going and moving. this song is about doing your own thing, not caring what others say and just going above it all (which is, unfourtunatly, harder for a girl to accomplish than a guy) now that we have been above the tree tops on track three we go "Over The Mountains" in track four. the momentum that was achieved with "Tree Tops" is still holding on but slowly seeping away and again we move to the more mature sound from before. the lyrics this time have a "stream of conscience" feel to it and don't appear to have much profound meanings at a simple glance and one gets the idea that it is like a child's hopes just to live life without worries in some magical place where all is fine and happy. our journey through the minds of this marvalous quintet end in the "Laughing City." like if the ep was made on purpose symetrically, we end up kind of like we started with a slow beat carrying us slowly to the end. this is personally their best song (apart from "Blackend Crown" which seems to only be available on their website). this time the lyrics are more advisory telling us not to get to crazy with life, jobs, relashionships and telling us where we can find them all. the intro voice and keyboards is really calm and soothing leading us along. the drums in this track have a march beat to them and it is here that you hear a great guitar solo. a string arrangement has also been added to make things oh so much better. i trully believe eisely is going to keep growing and i really recommend you all to buy their newest ep "Marvelous Things" on iTunes (why wait until december). you should also get some of the songs found on their official website (eisley.com), two done in 1998 (which puts one of the singers [who is also one of the main writers and the keyboardist] and the age of nine). this band is trully talented and you should all get to know them better. well, this is it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2014
    This CD got me hooked on Eisley in 7th grade. I had never heard anything like it before. They very quickly became my new favorite band and still are today.
  • Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2004
    The only fault I could find with Eisley's Laughing City EP was that it was far too short. At under a half hour, with only five songs, Laughing City has so much musical momentum that it leaves the listener wanting more every time.

    The opening song, "I Wasn't Prepared," combines melancholy nostalgia with fantasy-world wonder ("When the morning came, the bees flew down and wrapped themselves around me/And that's when I spoke the word to have them trace your face for me in pollen"), and frames it all in a beautifully original melody. Though it's a fair bit slower than most of the other songs, "I Wasn't Prepared" sets the perfect tone for the rest of the EP.

    It's followed by "Telescope Eyes," the song that's receiving the most radio play, for obvious reasons. "Telescope Eyes" is a fantastic rock song, but its heartfelt lyrics reveal much more than one expects from a rock song ("Please don't make me cry/I'm just like you, I know you know/I'm just like you, so leave me alone").

    "Tree Tops" brings to mind a music box with a spinning ballet dancer, and after a few seconds of that deceptive mental image, it hits you over the head with a blasting chorus. "Over the Mountains" follows in the same vein with lyrics about a semi-mystical forest.

    The final, title track pleads for understanding ("Let's not fight/That is not nice/Let's not be sore/That is not right"). At the risk of sounding political, "Laughing City" is a lament for the way things used to be, a profile of a dysfunctional family, and a social commentary and cautionary tale all at once. It follows in the fantasy-world theme of the other four songs, but the jaded, disenchanted mood is quiet a change from the uplifting nature of the rest of the songs, and the EP ends with a feeling of abruptness and leaves the listener expecting much more.

    Singer/songwriters Sherri and Stacy DuPree weave amazing words and melodies throughout Laughing City, and their bandmates Chauntelle and Weston DuPree and Jonathan Wilson create a wonderfully dense, multilayered sound to back them up. They've been compared to Sixpence None the Richer, Over the Rhine, and even Jimmy Eat World, but Eisley's sound defies comparison with most other bands. The band members draw a great deal of influence from Radiohead, Coldplay, Sixpence, and others, and often these influences show up in their songs, but in general Eisley manages to "be their own band."

    With such a diverse range of sounds and so much talent, it's no wonder Eisley toured with Coldplay over the summer of 2003. All the recognition they've received has been well-deserved, and a very devoted fan base awaits the release of their full-length album. Laughing City is a beautiful, irresistable introduction to this rising talent and it's worth a serious listen from anyone interested in new, gifted bands.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2003
    I enjoyed the CD but found it a bit one dimensional. I believe that they have a ton of potential and I look forward to seeing how they grow as a band.
    I haven't had the opportunity to see them live like the other reviewers but I hope to when they return to East Texas.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2004
    more refined than their first ep (not released officially), but less stylistically mature than marvelous things ep, laughing city does have two important things lacking in marvelous things ep which make it worth purchasing as well. firstly, it is slightly longer which gives it the feeling of actually having more than just a couple songs. plus, each song is quite different and has something rewarding about it. there is a wider range of mood on this one, and it has some songs that have becomes classics of the eisley catalogue so far (treetops, telescope eyes). although it still uses distortion on guitars reminiscent of the alternative era (something which is gone by marvelous things ep, and fittingly so, since this is not really congruent with the vision of eisley's music), it already displays alot of the enchanted landscapes vibe that becomes more prominent but perhaps a little too polished on marvelous things ep, which is why laughing city holds its own as a worthwhile cd to own. in any case, how could you not own a cd which has the song "i wasn't prepared" on it??
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