"The Cost have "it;" they have the quality which makes a band work, be powerful, original, interesting. Their heavy, intricate, dark songs are completely engaging and fresh, but very much in keeping with what many post- "emo" punk bands are striving for; music that is melodious but not poppy; lyrical but rough. Their music is a modern punk which incorporates sounds from the mid-eighties DC scene (Gray Matter), the early nineties San Diego scene (Drive Like Jehu) and fits in with the new national emo movement as represented by the current crop of Vagrant Records' bands.

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