{"id":78299,"date":"2019-04-24T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/?p=78299"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T13:23:06","slug":"review-ceres-we-are-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/review-ceres-we-are-a-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ceres &#8211; We Are A Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-78300\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-30x30.jpeg 30w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-500x500.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/71A3415D-5ADB-47BC-89FC-D80464E8A69B.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>For all the praise awarded to various stripes of Australian rock, most prospects appear more attractive on paper than in practice. Nevertheless, every so often a band like <b>Ceres<\/b> comes around threatening to do a bit more. Comparisons to Jimmy Eat World are definitely encouraging, but following in the wake of Slowly Slowly\u2019s increasing promise is what tips this new album into interesting territory.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully that\u2019s more than just conjecture too, as <i>\u2019We Are A Team\u2019<\/i> really is a great album, channelling everything wonderful about great, heartful rock music and just running with it. There\u2019s no flash or gimmickry to be found, and it\u2019s all the better for it; Tom Lanyon\u2019s down-to-earth vocals paired with the lushest of melodies is a winning combination pretty much from front to back. Whether that\u2019s the sweeping early gut-punch of <i>\u2019Collarbone, 2011\u2019<\/i> or the more upbeat, exuberant emo-pop of <i>\u2019Me &amp; You\u2019<\/i> and <i>\u2019Viv In The Front Seat\u2019<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Ceres\u2014Viv in the Front Seat (Official Audio)\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENgRpjbAJTU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That alone can reap some serious rewards, and provides enough to indeed warrant the Jimmy Eat World comparisons in the use of shades of light, but there\u2019s a warmth to this album that really stands out most of all. It\u2019s fine enough to be anthemic, and that\u2019s something that <b>Ceres<\/b> already excel at, but there\u2019s something so remarkably human about this album that makes it feel all the better. It\u2019s a common feature in emo, sure, but it\u2019s tapped into with such a level of assurance here, that the leg up is easy to pick up on.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s perhaps the most crucial reason that <i>\u2019We Are A Team\u2019<\/i> works; it\u2019s hardly innovative or reinventing the wheel, but <b>Ceres<\/b> are so good at what they do that it hardly matters. This is simply an emo album at its most rock-solid; hitting a scope and emotionality that\u2019s so easy to gravitate towards. It hints at potentially huge things to come. Keep an eye out for <b>Ceres<\/b>; this could be the start of something enormous.<\/p>\n<p>4\/5<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8216;We Are A Team&#8217;<\/i> by <b>Ceres<\/b> is released on 26th April on <b>Cooking Vinyl Australia<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ceres<\/b> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/ceresband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weareceres\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/weareceres\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/ceresband.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Luke Nuttall (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nuttall_luke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@nuttall_luke<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is simply an emo album at its most rock-solid; hitting a scope and emotionality that\u2019s so easy to gravitate towards.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":78300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5879,16854,16856,15029,16855],"class_list":["post-78299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-ceres","tag-cooking-vinyl-australia","tag-luke-nuttall","tag-we-are-a-team"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Review: Ceres - We Are A Team - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;This is simply an emo album at its most rock-solid; 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