Average Rating: 3.31 Rating Variance: 0.18 Objectivity Score: 77% (Well Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name4.0 excellentTickle Me Pink Madeline3.5 greatTaking Back Sunday Tell All Your FriendsTaking Back Sunday Where You Want To BeTaking Back Sunday Louder NowWe Came As Romans To Plant a SeedTo Plant A Seed is a daring album to one's opinion on its essence. The 10 song album is one to marvel at though because of how intricate and clean the studio portrays itself in the light. Either it's the placement of the guitar or the intensity of the double bass drum, We Came As Romans still maintains strength with its denting use of technology. Metalcore mixed with some post-hardcore flair is an amazing drink to anyone that listens to heavier music and to one's that listen to skill. The guitars in this album are always at the top of the list for the drinks to be drunk. Lou Cotton and Joshua Moore serve you drinks all throughout the album; simply causing you to under the influence of its aura. The guitars in "Dreams", is a concoction of hardcore riffs with a sort of spacey feeling mixed with synths to create a dream-like atmosphere. It even mirrors the effect of the songs meaning of love. The true beauty of the combination is soaked in when hearing "Roads That Never End and Views That Never Cease". The guitars follow this trek that start off with some metalcore and shifts into the pop chorus. Roads break away from simple mainstream stencils for a pop song to become their most popular song. Cotton and Moore managed to span the spirit of the beauty by breakdowns and hyping metalcore riffs and achieve the songs overall feeling of intensity and elegance. Eric Choi does a perfect job as a technical drummer in this band. He combines harsh fast double pedals with evenly placed cymbals and china crashes in the songs. The mastering of the studio set helps Choi’s effect on the music. The volumes of all of the set are at ideal for the intensity of the songs. “I Will Not Reap Destruction” is a reflection of Choi’s contribution to the songs intricate nature and exposes the bands ability to go heavier than their other songs but still maintain the post-hardcore feel. David Stephens and Kyle Pavone are the voices heard on the tracks. First off, David Stephens is an amazing screamer that can hit the different styles from guttural growls to strong yells. “Intentions” shows Stephens range of screaming talent as well as “Broken Statues”. Overall, this guy can do the job for this kind of music. Kyle Pavone does a good job in hitting the notes perfectly; a little too perfectly. Too much Autotune on Pavone’s voice makes the singer sound unreal. In fact, when WCAR plays live, Pavone cannot even harmonize with Stephens and takes away from the true meaning of music. However, strictly commenting on the studio version, Pavone’s vocals are spotless and give the band that sort of crisp and smooth feeling it possesses. With the use of Autotune staggering the WCAR’s figure a hair line, the lyrics could have been much more in depth and stronger. “I Will Not Reap Destruction” and “We Are the Reasons” are the highlights when coming to lyric writing but “Dreams” and “An Ever Growing Wonder” do not attract as much attention. Though, these songs are catchy to say, the lyrics could have been more conclusive and defining to set the bands stature a little higher, but they are still a great band.3.0 goodTaking Back Sunday The Louder Now DVD: PartTwoTaking Back Sunday New Again2.5 averageTaking Back Sunday Notes from the Past
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