Blog: Can You See the Sunset

It was almost three years ago that I reviewed a double EP from Syracuse, NY's Merit and said I heard "a talented band that hadn't yet found their identity" and that the record was good and "significantly more cohesive than their previous release" but that it "still retains a little of that 311 meets Incubus groove-oriented party rock vibe" of their 2004 debut album When We Fight . Well, that was then and this is now, and their new album, Arson Is For Lovers , shows that Merit has grown by leaps and bounds as [...]

• merit - cut and run
• merit - fess up