Life On Life's Terms - Bedlight For Blue Eyes > Reviews > City and the Ghost

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Average
Lyrics	Thought-provoking
Quality and consistency of tracks	A couple of weak links
How does it compare to the artist's other releases	Not applicable
Value for Money	Good

Advantages:	The vocal range on display here is excellent, the guitar hooks sublime .
Disadvantages:	If you don't like Fall Out Boy's vocal sound you probably won't like this .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

'Life on Life's Terms' is the second studio album from the New Jersey pop rock band that is Bedlight For Blue Eyes. Vocally the sound created by the band here is quite similar to that of Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump, instrumentally there are guitar hooks a plenty, and the music of Bedlight For Blue Eyes always here is hugely melodic. This album contains twelve tracks and this therefore provides for 44 minutes of music; an album you'll either love or hate dependent upon your thoughts about radio friendly powerpop.

Right from the offset here the music of Bedlight For Blue Eyes really makes its mark; opening track 'City and the Ghost' is absolutely fantastic and has a phenomenal chorus to boot. Vocally the sound is excellent here, instrumentally the sound is bouncy and hugely melodic also; Bedlight For Blue Eyes is very much a band for the Fall Out Boy generation. Personally I'm a huge fan of bands such as Fall Out Boy and the like, every song on this album is absolutely excellent to sing along to and never does the bands music sound anything short of exceptional here.

Tracks such as 'City and the Ghost', title track 'Life on Life's Terms', and 'Waste My Time' also really are the most impressive that this album has to offer; I fail to find fault with any of these tracks and all three of them make me smile a lot. The choruses are excellent, the lyrics fantastic, and the guitar hooks truly are magnificent. The bands sound is smartly put across here, the production is superb, and vocally is most definitely where the music of Bedlight For Blue Eyes impresses most markedly. The bands lead vocalist Daniel Rinaldi truly does have a terrific vocal range and there just seems to be no note that the man can't sing.

This is a great pop album with which the band really does sound to be having a lot of fun. The music is very well put across in all areas and in no department is the Bedlight For Blue Eyes sound in the slightest bit lacking. There are of course a few tracks that are better than others, there's not a bad track on this album however and vocally always the music has much to offer. Instrumentally the guitar hooks hit hard with their melodic mastery, and the drumbeats provided by the band here are also highly impressive from the first track right through to the last.

Eleven tracks here consist of the bands standard powerpop/pop rock succulence, the final track on the album is however a remix of 'Waste My Time'; not exactly a vital track, but an interesting one to listen to nonetheless. The standard instrumental sound has here been replaced with an electronic instrumental element instead. The track doesn't sound anywhere near as good with the electronic instrumental progression, it's fairly fun to listen to though and although the computer generated sound definitely does detract away from the overall quality of the original track I'm sure there will be some out there grateful of the inclusion of this remix

For fans of such bands as Kids In Glass Houses, Fall Out Boy, and Boys Like Girls then the music of Bedlight For Blue Eyes should most definitely be of great appeal. The bands sound bears supreme similarities to all three of these bands, and if you're up for a bit of emo tinged pop rock then the Bedlight For Blue Eyes sound will be right up your street. 'Life on Life's Terms' is a pretty solid second album from Bedlight For Blue Eyes and I would most definitely recommend giving this release a listen; it's not the best pop rock album you'll ever hear but it's certainly a very good one.

Label: Trustkill Records
Release Date: July 10th 2007

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