Split opens with three songs from the Gainesville band Loyal Frisby.  Right from track one, this four piece with enough heart for everyone in its rabid fanbase rocks with an intensity found on its two previous releases, the Escape and Gives a Damn.  These three songs, however, have a different feeling than any of the other songs.  This Starless Night opens as a tender Pixiesque ballad with enough harmonics and transitions to keep even the most cynical of music critics interested.  Deceitful Happiness and Made-Up Pain picks up the pace a bit with guest vocals from Damien from Gainesville punks As Friends Rust.  July at the Turn of the Century takes it back down to a woeful acoustic piece that wedges in a sense of hope in a outro bass line reminiscent of a heart beat.

   This proves the perfect platform for the portion of the CD occupied by Rick Derris of St. Augustine.  The Split finds Rick Derris as a far more talented, confident band than their first full length My P.P. Hurts.  The guitar noodlery familiar to those that know Rick Derris' live show kicks things off in the brilliant Where the sky Meets Jupiter.  Throughout the three songs the two guitarists weave in and out of each other as they are backed up by the solid bass and rhythm section.  You Broke My Heart follows in much the same sonic vein, with its loose, organic structure that is sure to please.  Rick Derris finish up their contribution with Butt-Naked Please, where the boys show off their funky side.

     Mindlikewater rounds off the album with three songs that had previously been released as an EP before their most recent full-length Curving Toward the Sun.  I had not heard them before this CD, so I was taken aback by their professionalism and clear sound.  The first song