Review Summary: the blood Brothers second album takes you on a crazy screaming adventure that will leave you begging for more.
For an album to be a 5 out of 5 it needs to be absolutely perfect. It needs to be a record without a single flaw. An album that seldom gets old, has memorable parts stuck in your head for days, and defies all other sounds previously explored by other bands. These are just some things that a perfect album should do. In my seventeen years on Earth I have never heard a perfect album that is 5 out of 5. However, I think this is the closest thing to a perfect album I have ever heard.
The Blood Brothers second effort, March on, Electric Children, takes you on an adventure you won’t ever forget. Whether you hate or love this album you will indeed remember it for awhile. It sounds like nothing I have ever heard before. Its lo-fi production gives it the perfect sound. You will need a dictionary along with the CD jacket to understand the story but once you get it you will reread it for days and days and days and days…….
My interpretation of the short story that The Blood Brothers comprised is about a character who wants to get famous for all the wrong reasons. She makes some bad choices throughout the record and ends up being a sex slave for the pornography industry. Each song is another step towards the inevitable end. Each song is another bad choice that the main character makes.
The lyrics are just amazing. Though they are quite depressing, they are very well written. Jordan Blilie and Johnny Whitney composed the story, which makes sense that two people wrote this. With all the events going on, no sole brain could think of this.
But enough of the lyrics the musical performance this band puts on for this album is beyond any album I have ever heard. Not once does it let up! It rips through track after track after track never ceasing. It is like a train wreck you know is coming and you use all your might to stop it from killing you. And then right after you stop it another one comes speeding towards you once again. This train wreck of a record (and I mean that in the best way possible) starts of at the speed of sound with “Birth Skin/Death leather.” With underrated vocalist Jordan Blilie screaming at the top of his lungs “Mr. Electric Ocean disappears and Reappears!” And from then on you have no idea what you just got yourself into.
The first two songs race by without out warning and then completely catches you off guard with the almost country sounding electric guitar at the beginning of the title track. “New York Slave” is a great song but then all of the sudden turns on you and becomes a creepy mid-tempo attention whore and then explodes again into sudden burst of energy. “Siamese Gun” uses a trial theme lyrically but makes you want to dance like your stepping on nails.
The guitar throughout the album it playing out of control chords that don’t sound like they could ever be put together in that specific order but sound perfectly with catchy bass lines and pounding drums. Its “un-perfect” production gives it the best sound for this type of music being played.
The album goes out, not with a bang, but with a scream I guess you can say with both vocalists screaming and singing like beasts over a piano. It is by far the most eccentric way to end one of the most eccentric albums ever made. This album as a whole is a beast of its own. It takes you on a story that you won’t forget and back before you know it.
So why isn’t his album a perfect 5 out of 5? It has no flaws. It has great lyrics, vocals, and music. It is both catchy and different. So why does it not have a perfect score? The only reason is because of the length. I really like short albums and short songs but nine songs at a mere 25 minutes? Come on! If they added just a couple more songs on this record it could have ended up being a classic perfect album. Despite its length however, it is still the best album I have ever heard. So I give it a 4.8. Go buy it because this band is no more and who knows when these CD’s will go out of print.
By the way I have never written a review so if you want to tell me what I am doing wrong that would be really cool.
