Come mia prima recensione, ho optato per il cd che più sto ascoltando in questo periodo.
Premesso che la scena emo mi è sempre stata indifferente, recensire questo album non è un'impresa difficile: non c'è nulla di nuovo, a parte alcune rarissime influenze glam metal, ma quello che c'è è fatto bene. Il loro post-hardcore è molto interessante, comunque.
Dopo l'ep "There'e No Sympathy For The Dead", il primo full-lenght degli Escape The Fate non è per nulla male.
Parte bene con "The Webs We Weave", buona canzone, ma nulla più. "When I Go Out, I Want To Go Out On A Chariot Of Fire" prosegue su questa linea. "Situations" cambia tutto: una delle hit del cd, è quella più influenzata dal glam metal, ma soprattutto dal punk. "The Guillotine" è la canzone più pesante dell'album: il cantante Ronnie Radke si scatena spesso in uno scream e alla fine la canzone sfocia quasi nel death metal. "Reverse This Curse" è un'altra potenziale hit, con ottimi ritornelli molto orecchiabili. "Cellar Door" è una dei pochi passi falsi del cd. Noiosa e talmente lenta da essere lagnosa in certi punti, si poteva tranquillamente farne a meno. "There's No Sympathy for the Dead" ribalta tutto: hardcore a manetta, velocità e scream sono le chiavi di una delle loro canzoni più belle. "My Apocalypse" e "Friends and Alibis" sono un pò sottotono, sopratutto la seconda, ma dopo qualche ascolto entrano in testa anche loro. La conclusione del cd è magnifica: "Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliché " è un'altra canzone orecchiabile, ma con alcune parti molto "forti". "The Day I Left the Womb" conclude magnificamente l'album: canzone acustica con un testo veramente bello, cantata alla grande.
A trovarci per forza pecche, la mancanza di assoli memorabili c'è, anche se il chitarrista Brian Money se la cavicchia. Il bassista Max Green è proprio forte: oltre ad essere la seconda voce, spesso in scream, si fa sentire spesso.
Concludendo, un'ottimo album hardcore/metalcore, sperando che in avvenire l'influenza metal si faccia sentire di più sul punk.
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03 Situations (03:07)
The Situations are irrelevant now.
She loves the way that I tease,
I love the way that she breathes
I touched her ooohh,
she touched my ahhh,
it was the craziest thing.
I love the girls who hate to love because they're just like me.
A certain girl, she took my hand and ran it up her thigh.
She licked her lips and pulled my hair
I fall in love for a night.
She can't behave and I'm just a slave,
Don’t worry I'll be gone when the morning comes.
Darling, what is going on?
Honestly that never happened
Lying is your favorite passion.
Leave me, go where you belong,
Higher heels and lipstick napkins,
dying is your latest fashion.
The frustration, it's a regular thing
I hate the ones who love to hate because they're just like me.
A certain girl she took her hand and put in my lap
It's way too full she said "once you have me you'll always come back."
She can't behave and I'm just a slave,
Don’t worry I'll be gone when the morning comes.
Darling, what is going on?
Honestly that never happened
lying is your favorite passion
Leave me, go where you belong
Higher heels and lipstick napkins,
dying is your latest fashion.
I know you love to resist
and all it takes is a kiss
and you just love to hate me.
You know you love all the lies
so don’t act surprised
that I just love to hate you.
I kissed your lips, you pulled my hair
it was the craziest thing.
I love the girls who love to hate.
(Breathing)
(Whoa!) Darling, what is going on?
Honestly that never happened
Lying is your favorite passion
Leave me, go where you belong
higher heels and lipstick napkins
dying is your latest fashion
Darling,(leave me) what is going on?
Honestly that never happened
Lying is your favorite passion
Leave me (darling), go where you belong
Higher heels and lipstick napkins
dying is your favorite passion
09 Friends and Alibis (04:10)
Oh, I hate to be the one to bear the bad news
Yes, it is true
I finally fell in love
I fell so hard that I'm killing myself
Yes, I need out
Out of this grave that I've dug
And all the friends that I have gone through
And how much I deserve the pain
It's a shame
So hold your head
Hold it up high
Here's to the friends that were alibis
Keep this close by your side
When I come home we will have our night
Oh, they always told me I was gorgeous in a way
And that fateful day
I found who I was
So fill this hole with my prescriptions
I just keep feeding my addictions
And all the friends that I have gone through
And how much I deserve the pain
It's a shame
So hold your head
Hold it up high
Here's to the friends that were alibis
Keep this close by your side
When I come home we will have our night
We will have our night
You were the ones that stood by my side, whoa
And I was the one that fought all of your fights
Go!
(Hold your head, hold it up high) Whoa
(Keep this close by your side) Whoa
So hold your head
Hold it high
Here's to the friends that were alibis
Keep this close by your side
When I come home we will have our night
Hold your head
Hold it up high
Here's to the friends that were alibis
Keep this close by your side
When I come home we will have our night
Hold your head
Hold it up high
Here's to the friends that were alibis
Keep this close by your side
When I come home we will have our night
We will have our night
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Di Tobby
Questo "Dying Is Your Latest Fashion" invece è una cagata pazzesca.
Il resto francamente è veramente troppo ruffiano, finto, plasticoso, noioso, strasentito, scassaballe anche per chi questo genere lo ama come me.
