Since I kind of enjoyed writing up my thoughts on that Fake Problems EP, I thought I'd try doing small quickfire reveiws for all the albums I'd listened to since. If I enjoy this I may continue to do it. If I don't I won't. It's fun being me!! So here they are from the album that came after Oh No! to the most recent:
Between The Buried and Me- Colors
I hadn't ever really listened to much BTBAM, but I figured I should check them out. I've actually seen them live once, but the sound was terrible and by the time they got it figured out, the headliner (who shall be named later) wanted them off the stage so they could tear it up. I was pretty impressed by this offering from the boys from North Carolina. They can certainly bring the brutal when they want, but they really aren't afraid to lapse into more eclectically influenced territory.
The Descendants- 'Merican EP
This EP has two of my favorite Descendants songs on it; Nothing With You and the title track so to be honest the other two could have been two minutes each of white noise and I would have liked the EP as a whole.
Norma Jean- Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child
Ah Christian Metalcore you are my weakness. There's something about the when the lambs of god starting getting wrathful that makes for some awesome metalcore. Stand out track for me is Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste, but that could be becase I've heard the Legion of Doom mashup with it and Ebolarama by ETID (B to the rutal).
Latterman- No Matter Where We Go..!
I can proudly say that I own all three of the Latterman albums and I've payed the boys for all of them. For the longest time however I haven't had the two albums on this list on my computer because I bought them on vinyl (thats right, records). So now I had the chance to complete my cyber collection. Best two tracks for me are Fear and Loathing on Long Island and Video Games and Fantasy Novels, but you really can't go wrong with anything on this album. Punk the way it was meant to be.
Shai Hulud- A Profound Hatred of Man
Shai Hulud has a thing about not liking people. This is a concept that I, personally, can embrace. This album has some great brutality from the transition between hardcore punk and its more technical brother, metalcore. I liked it but I have trouble getting past the fact that the guitarist now plays in New Found Glory. About that....
Dragonforce- Sonic Firestorm
Dragonforce was the aforementioned headliner and they do put on one heck of an epic-fest. What impressess me most about them is how in the midst of all the pyrotechnics there are definitely some dynamics and some hooks which make the songs listenable. While Sonic Firestorm doesn't have anything destined to be one of my all time faves, it's a pretty decent dose of epic.
HORSE the Band- Natural Death
This band and this album are perfect examples of what I like to think of as 'weirdcore.' I don't really mean that as a bad thing. I thought this album had less of the 8-bit sounding synths that I tend to think of when I think of HORSE the Band and at 16 tracks ran a little long for my taste.
Mineral- Power of Failing
Words cannot describe. Mineral never fails to amaze me. They are violent and peaceful at the same time, frantic and calm. Chris Simpson can write lyrics like a champ and is currently one of the bigger influences on my song writing in that he gives me permission to lay off the irony and glibness that I get from an adolescence spent listening to Brand New and Taking Back Sunday.
Latterman- We Are Still Alive
Latterman again. This album lacks the standout tracks of "No Matter Where We Go..!' and by this I mean when I looked at the track list I didn't recognize anything immediately. That said when I began listening I found I knew a lot of the words. So freaking anthemic. This band makes it to at least the top 10 of bands that need to reform (Jawbreaker I'm looking at you, I know you've played together in the past two years). I'm sorry Bridge and Tunnel's just not doing it for me.
As for the promised shameless plug, the boys and I have pretty much finished hammering out all the parts of the last song I wrote this summer (took our time didn't we?) and the other day at practice we played with Greg's pocket recorder going. The cymbals in particular are pretty dominant and besides a few shouted words you can't even tell there's singing going on, but it'll give you a very rough taste of what will be taken in the next batch into the studio. Listening can be done here.
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