content: I can't believe I am the first person to submit a review of this album. This is an excellent CD. The Masters of the Hemisphere are (were as of Nov 2002, actually) a great indie pop band out of Georgia. Of their three primary releases, this is the most professional and developed. The band makes good use of other instruments (take time--horns, anything anything--fanatastic flute(?) stuff) to break out from the boring old indie band guitar thing. Some of the songs sound like they should have been hits in 1965, but the band is decidedly not retro. This made one reviewer's top 10 of 2002 list at Rolling Stone. Comparisons are difficult. Think Pavement without the bile, Fables of the Reconstruction era REM without any twang.