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Review Summary: The debut from the Pennsylvania quartet Breaking Benjamin featuring Benjamin Burnley (Vocals, Guitar), Aaron Fink (Lead Guitar), Mark James (Bass), and Jeremy Hummel (Drums). Saturate finds itself bathing in 90's nostalgia with heavy riffs and cryptic lyr Saturate is a heavy album, sometimes a little forced, but mainly well executed in what is now a pretty crowded genre. Breaking Benjamin may not do anything special or extraordinary here, but they are technically proficient, and do a descent job of sounding not quite like everyone else. Wish I May starts the album off with a growl and a pretty simple, yet admit-tingly rocking riff, with lyrics about escaping to a better life and leaving your enemies behind. Medicate is a quiet/loud song that has a catchy and playful chorus, to counter the somewhat downtrodden verses. Skin is probably the most playful song on the album, which is fitting. It is clearly about losing/taking one's virginity, and is THE catchiest song on the entire album. Polyamorous is a somewhat playful/angry song about quite possibly the girl in Skin perhaps. It has a catchier riff than Skin that will get stuck in your head, but the lyrics themselves aren't quite as memorable. Natural Life is the first filler on the album, easily the second weakest song. The verses are forgettable and the chorus is quite frankly, horrendous. Next to Nothing is kind of a surprise of the album, it's a well written, though a little generic, love song. It will no doubt be a great little break-up song for anyone to play for their defector. Water is kind of a continuation or a flip-side if you will for Next to Nothing. It is all about the anger of rejection and losing out yet again. Phase is another mid-tempo type rocker gone a little wrong. It's not quite a filler, but does suffer from an over-extended intro and an unnecessary outro. With No Games we get to the most ambitious, and possibly the prettiest song, on the album. The chorus especially soars nicely with the string arrangement and features probably the best vocals on the entire album. Then comes Sugarcoat. The screamo chorus does not at all match up to the verses, and this is THE weakest song on the album. It's basically just a filler track inside and out. Shallow Bay is a nice little rocker full of riffs and anger and nice little put-downs. It's more or less the title track for this album as it kind of combines a little of everything, and the band's website is in fact shallowbay.com. Now for the closer, yes Forever is tacked on at the end of Shallow Bay. Forever is kind of like a suicide note to God, with it's reference to the poison apple and Burnley begging, "Can I stay alive forever". It's not a particularly bad song at all, and in fact might have been better to be left separate. Saturate overall doesn't change the music scope, but it does show a band with talent and potential, and perhaps with experience this band could separate themselves from their peers.
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pretty decent review for a first, even if its a pseudo-track-by-track clumped into 1 paragraph
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The screamo chorus
Picked this out of your massive wall of text and decided you probably have no idea what you're talking about.
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You skipped "Home" - it's my favorite track on this album.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Gotta say this is my favourite Breaking Benjamin album by far. We Are Not Alone was pretty good but Phobia and Dear Agony got so boring so fast. "Home" is just downright awesome.
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"Home" is just downright awesome.
Fuck. Yes.
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Paragraphs would be appreciated. This is their one album I didn't listen to
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Yeah bro, paragraphs are necessary. Solid review though, I gave you a POS.
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thank you for the feedback, it is the first time. I will try to do better with my next one. Home is an awesome track, nice Wizard of Oz reference.
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You've definitely got a nice writing style. On your next ones, just use paragraphs and you'll be fine!
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Saturate overall doesn't change the music scope, but it does show a band with talent and potential, and perhaps with experience this band could separate themselves from their peers.
Agreed, but it's a shame that four albums down the line they still haven't managed to do so.
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Everyone's already said this, but yeah, not seeing paragraph breaks is a turn off when looking at a review. Also, in the second sentence, you spelled decent as 'descent' (as in, "descent into the pit"). Other than that, it was a really good review.
| | | Album Rating: 4.5
Missed Water and Home, but overall agree with you 
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