Review Summary: Head in the ceiling fan
Comparisons are unfair, but they're a fact of life. When a band puts out a new record the gears in my brain automatically start turning - I begin deconstructing the band's entire body of work and certain expectations are created. Along with overall quality, genre is taken into account. Where does this album sit compared to the best and the worst albums I've heard in its genre? The more albums a band has, and the more genres the band encapsulates, the loftier the expectations are going to be. These expectations are necessary traits in the realm of context, and it's the area in which Title Fight fails immensely.
With every release Title Fight add more and more genres to their pop-punk framework. As of 2015, the list goes: pop-punk - melodic hardcore - emo - shoegaze. The more genres Title Fight attempt, the more comparisons pop into my head. At first I was comparing you to Banner Pilot and Set Your Goals records and you were doing a decent job. But now you're swimming in the same pool as
Dear You, Soulvaki, and
Isn't Anything, and you're just not staying afloat. Adding new genres to the mix does not add anything new to Title Fight's sound, it's simply a thin veil to cover up the lack of fresh ideas.
Title Fight's influences have expanded, but their songwriting has not. They still have a tendency to write a mass of songs that all sound the same, except instead of ten samey pop-punk songs, it's now ten samey shoegaze tinted emo songs.
Hyperview does not satisfy in the context of it's genre nor in terms of Title Fight's discography - this is not progression, it's not even branching out, it's putting lipstick on a pig.
