REVIEW DE BRAND NEW EYES

por Naye Mar Sep 01, 2009 8:01 pm

este review es de "Drowned in sound".

Se los dejo en inglés cuando tenga más tiempo lo traduzco jeje

Careful

The
album opens with a thick chugga bass than the previous record and with
lots of surprisingly complex math-rock time changes - almost like Mars
Volta at full-on melodic crescendo but with Hayley doing those big
rising AFI-like vocals. The breakdowns give light relief before
gigantic drum rolls. The lyrics are all about pushing you away, with
the phrase "don't come any closer!"repeated quite a bit.

Ignorance
Lolita-ish
Stefani-esque vocals over what could be No Doubt at their most brash or
Alkaline Trio at full (pop) tilt. So far so much more intense in both
an ornate and chaotically complex way, than the previous album. The big
lyrical statements are still present, with lines like"ignorance is your new best friend!" .Playing God

And
then it drops off to a solo rhythm guitar line and in come some much
more adroit drums and a big blink-182/Get Up Kids chorus. Lots of
melodically stuttered "br-break-break it off" repetition makes this one
sound like a live favourite in waiting.Brick by Boring Brick

Hayley declares "bury the castle" and then there's a "buh-buh-buh-nuh-nuh" that
Lostprophets and Panic at the Disco would be really proud of. The press
release says the album is "breathless", I guess that could also be read
as unrelenting because so far the drums on this record are a little
more like a barrage of noize crashing down on you (we're called drowned
in sound, so this is a good thing!). There are acoustic versions of
this track from an Mtv session they did but it sounds ten times bigger
and better than that on the album!Turn It Off

Hayley
is sounding cutesy as a big ball of riff builds and builds, then falls
away [insert huge first verse here]. This one sounds like the credits
to a college rock movie, as the camera pans on zooming cars whilst
monster trucks rain from the sky.Exceptional

Acoustic
guitar o'clock! This is a lush burst-hearted ballad. Hayley maybe has a
little bit of the Avril Lavignes about her on this one but THIS IS NO
BAD THING. "You are the only exception...." she coos before the band bring in the drums and strings.Feeling Sorry

A
jetstream splicing riff lurches from the calm and the bass
dur-nurr-nurrs like My Vitriol at their most emo. Lots more
F-U-right-back lyrics on this one, with lots of lines like "I feel no sympathy" flittering around this tamed beast of a track.Looking Up

'Looking
Up' is a little more like Paramore's trademark epic-rock-pop bigness
with moshpit-pausing breaks but the song carried by the vocal (or if
you wanna get technical, the top-line melody). Throw in some "wuh-woah-oh-oh!'" and you have a Sunny D addictive 'Misery Business'-like feel good melodramatic popular song.Where The Lines Overlap

An
inaudibly quiet guitar line and then THWACK! - we're whacked with more
racing rock joy. Break. "Oh-oh" and THACK. Pause. And they bring that
riff back twice the size, like a worm you've chopped in half. This is
an 'in love' song with lines like "no one is as lucky as I seem." In
essence, this one sounds like an obvious call and return for their huge
live crowds but also a spikey attack at the echo-chamber of the media,
as the lyric continues "...I've got a feeling if I sing this loud enough, you will sing it back to me!" In essence, this is probably what would happen if Refused wrote pop songs for Kelly Clarkson.Misguided Ghosts

Things fall away to a slight and quite special acoustic moment. It's genuinely really-really lovely
with a tiny bit of kick drum toward the end. Lyrically it wanders
around dragging its feet in diary-angst but that's part of the reason
why they mean so much to their younger fans and why they're such a
special guilty pleasure - "we just go in circles, pain is just a simple compromise... A broke heart, a twisted mind."All I Wanted

This
is the big Evanescance falling down a black hole album crescendo. Big
bass, with lots of space to let everything breathe before a capella
bits and then huge tumbling drums and face-shaking riffs. And then
insert feedback 'til fade.