| 3.0 good |
| Angels and Airwaves Love |
| Brand New Your Favorite Weapon |
| Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow |
| Creed My Own Prison |
| Enter Shikari Take to the Skies |
| Fall Out Boy Infinity on High |
| Fall Out Boy From Under the Cork Tree |
| Fall Out Boy Folie a Deux |
| Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |
| House Of Heroes Say No More |
| John Mayer Heavier Things |
| John Mayer Battle Studies |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| MxPx Secret Weapon |
| MxPx Panic |
| Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine |
| Perma Two Of A Crime |
Perma – Two of a Crime (October 29, 2013/Rory Records/Equal Vision)
So, first, there is no way that I can objectively review this album. I’ve been a huge Say Anything fan for years, followed Eisley since Room Noises was released, have every album from each artist (including a crapload of Say Anything bootlegs) and generally have been a fanboy of both bands for as long as they have been around.
But this is not a review of Say Anything or Eisley.
Max loves Sherri. Sherri loves Max. As people in love usually do, Max and Sherri got married and made a baby.
Since they are both musicians, Max and Sherri wrote songs for each other.
This album is the result.
Now, I was expecting a super-sweet, diuhbeetus-inducing album, based on the early tracks and general feel of the project.
And, yeah, it is.
But damn if this isn’t also a catchy, ridiculous, fun album that rises above it’s cutesy roots and shows some legit promise.
Is it for everyone? Well, no. This album is really created for the fans who have followed both artists through their mental breakdowns (Max), drug addiction (Max) and failed marriages to other pop-punkers (Sherri). The creepy girls who stalk Sherri’s Instagram will claim obsession with this collection for a couple months, the girls who buy Song Shops hoping Max will love them will add this to their collection, and the cranky old Say Anything fans will still bitch and moan about how much Max sucks now. |
| Relient K Relient K |
| Relient K The Anatomy of Tongue In Cheek |
| Say Anything Hebrews |
| The good:rMax sounds passionate again. Anarchy, My Dear struggled with Max's concept (at least from pre-album interviews) of being a political and social statement with little political/social content in the lyrics, and the lax attempts at piecing together the sound of the Dormroom Demos with the pop feel of the self titled album. Max is very protective and defensive of his family and art, and it shows here. rThe Bad:rProduction. While Jeremy Larson played violin, viola and cello parts on the songs, the string parts are overcompressed and sound more like bad MIDI programming. Drums are pushed high in the mix, Max's push to sing in his harsher, spittle-flying-everywhere style sounds like a parody of previous albums, and why, on an album hyped as guitar-free, does he feel the need to add a synth solo that is supposed to sound like a guitar?rThe Ugly:rSA have always had lyrics that swing from hilarious and sarcastic (Admit It!) to over the top, poorly structured attacks on strawmen who talk trash about Max's music and family (Admit It Again!). This album is more of the same. |
| Streetlight Manifesto 99 Songs of Revolution: Volume I |
| The Elms Truth, Soul, Rock & Roll |
| Tool Undertow |
| U2 No Line on the Horizon |
| U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb |
| Underoath Survive Kaleidoscope |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
