I SEE STARS
Review of "The End Of The World Party" - by: Rana
I have a special set of personal ethics with my strange style of journalism and one of them is to ask no personal questions and the other is to always be honest and give a truthful opinion. Everything else is fair play. And I'm a nice chick most of the time, you know? I like to give good reviews. So, it is with great pain I have to say this album is just, sad. More like fuck awful! I really can't find anything positive to say about this piece of work.
Being thirty-four, perhaps my age prohibits me from enjoying the whole "screamo" thing. So I didn't like this album. At, all. It's the standard shit factory output that is the current shit scene. High pitched Justin Bieber vocals plus harsh, irritating screaming and way too much synthetic electronics to round it out. The massive amount of vocal effects just proves that the singer needs to quit while he's behind. If you have to use that much trickery, you shouldn't be singing. High school is what this is. I hope this band is just trying to find itself and will eventually dig into the archaeology of quality music quite a bit deeper because fortunately, this genre is on its way out.
The introductory title track "The End of the World Party" really sets up the failure of the entire album. The other edge of the album that has the absence of the screaming is, oh how this hurts me, "It Will be Up (High School Never Ends)." Do I really need to say anything more? Maybe the title of this song says it all. High School does end, boys. But, it's obvious that you don't know that yet. So, to sum it up with only a few words that could have spoken for this whole album, I'm not seeing any musical stars in I See Stars.
