Protest the Hero Kezia
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FattyKnee
January 27th 2009


490 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

fortress tried to live up to the standards laid down by kezia but it just couldn't.

gaslightanthem
January 28th 2009


5208 Comments


well it could because it was better

ninjuice
January 28th 2009


6760 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Conceptually they sure didn't.

gaslightanthem
January 28th 2009


5208 Comments


idc fortress is more enjoyable

Fugue
January 28th 2009


7371 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah fortress was (slightly) better than this

browncore
February 16th 2009


26 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

best $9.99 i ever spent. i found this to be more enjoyable than fortress.

ninjuice
February 16th 2009


6760 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off



I don't really think it's a good investment to put a lot into the concepts of the album. The music is still the music with or without that.


Yeah except when the music is all around awesome and you have an amazing concept+lyrics to boot.

Like, say, on this album?

Jwatts
March 1st 2009


1 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

absolutley amazing album, in terms of lyrics it is much better than fortress but not as much so as instrumental but kezia is just so different than fortress its not that its not as good its just that its not the same

Phantom
March 11th 2009


9010 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Gotta say that I think The Divine Suicide Of K is probably PTH's best song. Can't stop listening to it lately.

DBlitz
March 11th 2009


1693 Comments


Gotta say that I think The Divine Suicide Of K is probably PTH's best song. Can't stop listening to it lately.

yes

at one point thats all i listened to really

Phantom
March 11th 2009


9010 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The whole album is amazing, but The Divine... just really sticks out. Great instrumentally and lyrically. A great climax to the album

Aids
March 20th 2009


24948 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Excellent review. The only thing that slightly dissapointed me was that you didn't really talk about the defining lyrics in A Plateful of Our Dead. "If I had a gun, I'd pump your ethics full of lead/If I beleived in meat, I'd eat of plateful of our dead." Protest the Hero are all vegans and I think that this track is about how eating meat is fucked up (among other things).



Oh and this album is incredible by the way.

Tyler
Emeritus
March 21st 2009


7927 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Nah, that's not what the track is about and they're not all vegans, either. Granted they mostly (if not entirely) avoid eating meat, so you can take that as a worthy metaphor, but the track is really a response to their earlier material and an unboxing of their newer lyrical methodology. It excuses much of their earlier political pandering as youthful exhuberance. The track ultimately is just responding to critics and themselves stating that they wrote this album as an abstract refelction of their beliefs (in direct contradition to their early work), so don't ask them to, as he says, "define their morals". It's a way of saying "dont ask us to define our morals" because they were "half-selves" (adolescents, teens, not yet adults) who "love whole hopes" (socialism, activism) when they wrote the EP.



I went into it in another incarnation of this review that was lost on a server crash, but keep in mind this was written so long ago that I've really lost all itnerest in tweaking it.

Relinquished
March 21st 2009


50089 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Gotta say that I think The Divine Suicide Of K is probably PTH's best song. Can't stop listening to it lately.




^This.

ninjuice
March 21st 2009


6760 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Gotta say that I think The Divine Suicide Of K is probably PTH's best song.


Imo that would be the one right after their best song.

Phantom
March 22nd 2009


9010 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

The Kezia act is my favourite part of the album, so the whole of the last third is awesome, Divine... just beats the other two tracks imo.



The end of Turn Soonest To The Sea is sexy though.This Message Edited On 03.21.09

Captain North
March 22nd 2009


6793 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, I'd actually put Blindfolds Aside as their best song, and then probably The Divine Suicide of K.

sspedding
March 22nd 2009


5778 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

i just dont see this record as being outstanding, its got some great musicianship and theres a few good songs but fuck me it isnt a 5/5.

Phantom
March 22nd 2009


9010 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Thanks for the input metalcore guy, definitely trust your opinion.

ninjuice
March 22nd 2009


6760 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Lol.

Drop Dead, Gorgeous are so much better than Protest the Hero amirite



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