I miss university! At the moment I'm a manager for a marketing company, I live on my own and I trave...
I miss university! At the moment I'm a manager for a marketing company, I live on my own and I travel to Hong Kong twice a year to visit my parents. Im 22 and I have no idea what I want to do as a career! Email me your suggestions!!
Member since:15.10.2008
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Wow... thats the first thing you'll think when Calling All Skeletons breaks through your speakers, uplifting you and making it almost impossible not to try and sing along.
This album, their sixth full release studio album is almost a digression from their recent "grave yard" rock style made most famous in Crimson. If you like your earlier Akaline Trio, you'll be happy that this album returns to the much more melodic and catchy pop-punk rythems of From Here to Infirmary. The production values are evident on this album from the start, with clapping and "Waheys", the album is almost certainly marketed at a new fan base, but still retains the old school trio ethics...read on!
The first six songs rip straight into your senses, each one a stand out track that could also hog any radio play list (if the mainsteam indie/RnB wasn't already hogging it). Help Me, perhaps the best track on the album, is one of those tracks you'll listen to over and overm you'll stick it on repeat, and it will stay a permanant member of your playlist. Over and Out, my favourite track, offers a rich heavy bass verse, and builds up to Skibias trademark high treble power chord crecendo, offering not only a catchy rythem, but a powerful one too. The lyrics themselves, about war, and the effects of death, are powerful, and relate to current political climate.
Do you Wanna know? My second favourite track, uses Andrianos husky voice to effect, and builds to one of the best chorus' of the year. The rest of the album is for the Trio Purists, and returns to their hardcore-punk sound made famous in previous albums. However, i believe the real strength is in the first six tracks, which really gets your feet tapping. The second half seems much more intense, and refrains from being too poppy. Thus, this album offers something for oldschool Trio fans, and new fans alike.
It pains me that these guys havent reached stardom yet, with each album building on the last, and offering something new and fresh. This album easily rivels Goddamit and From Here to Infirmary, and is one of their best, I would reccomend this album to any fan of this genre, especially fans of the Trio!
Thanks for reading!
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