Album Review: 9 by Saves the Day

Saves the Day have long operated with an inflated sense of self. "This song will become the anthem of your underground," Chris Conley sang on 2001's Stay What You Are. At the time, he may not have been far off. It's hard to imagine mid-2000s alternative had the band's lyrical forthrightness not inspired a wave of suburban adolescents to buy studded belts, pick up guitars, and whine about their relationships.

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