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Title: I can't listen to it again. . .
Review: This album was extremely disappointing. I'm not one of those "scene" kids who listens to music because I like the lyrics or because the band members look cute in girl pants, but am a musician with an ear for originality and technicality. To begin with, the sound quality is unbearably bad; the cymbals create a flood of distortion that drowns out everything else, except the kick drum which sucks out the sound of the cymbals. Second, the album sounds completely generic, as if they decided to jump on the talentless overfunded emo bandwagon with the likes of My Chemical Romance and Underoath, even though they have dominated their genre for years. There is neither rythmic technicality nor raw emotion nor screaming(or the screaming was so scarce that I didn't notice it at all). They seem to be marketing to a different group: the trendy scenesters who buy whatever is on the Up and Coming rack at Target for $9.99.
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