Amber Pacific - Truth in Sincerity

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RIYL

All Time Low
Cute Is What We Aim For
Relient K
Yellowcard

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Hopeless Records

Tracklist

1. Rule #76
2. Summer (In B)
3. Temporary
4. You're Only Young Once
5. Living Proof
6. Follow Your Dreams, Forget The Scene
7. Take Me Fro This Place
8. Fall Back Into My Life
9. We Think We're Hardcore, Cause Well, We Are
10. Runaway
11. Watching Over Me
12. Dear___ This Has Always Been About Standing Up For What You Believe In.

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Progressing is a key in music these days. Most bands can't pull a NOFX or a Slayer and create the same album over and over and still manage to be credible. Even Blink 182 had to change it up on their self-titled album. I guess it is the “get serious” era in music. Well, Amber Pacific still wants to make happy go lucky music, but on their sophomore album Truth in Sincerity the guys haven't shown any progression in their music whatsoever. That isn't to say that they had to become virtuosos with their musical craft, but it would have been nice if they would have expanded the depth of their music even just a little.

One of Amber Pacific's biggest faults is in Matt Young’s vocals. When he sings it sounds like he is trying to over emphasize every word and it becomes very grating on the ears after awhile. You get the impression during this album that the guys overindulged in Yellowcard’s Ocean Avenue and tried to create something like it. Just take a listen to “Summer (In B)” and “Living Proof” for evidence of that. Amber Pacific still can write catchy songs, but after listening to this disc for a while it just seems like they tried way too hard. The melody in “Fall Back Into Life” is spot on, but Matt's aforementioned shoddy vocal work can’t carry the song. A catchy melody can only take you so far. Credit can be thrown in the bands direction for the song “Runaway,” which features guest vocals from Mike Herrera of MxPx, and it's safe to say that "Runaway" is definitely the best song on the album.

Amber Pacific still has time to develop as a band for their next album, but on Truth in Sincerity, there are still some kinks that need to be worked out before this band catches my ear.

--Chris Conlan

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Chris Conlan
Last updated: 09/29/2009 08:59PM

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jared
05/30/2007
07:33AM
Age: 30
Location
Minneapolis, MN
The Possibility and the Promise was my guilty pleasure of 2005. I agree however that this one just didn't do it as well. Maybe their sound got tired in the last 2 years, or maybe they should've taken things in a different direction. Who knows, but this isn't it.

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theseed30
05/30/2007
04:40PM
Location
Cincinnati
Their first cd was excellent. The new one sounds exactly like the first and is also excellent. Thank god a band that duplicates their sound and didn't try to "mature" into utter garbage, I've heard enough of that word.
Chris Conlan
05/30/2007
05:18PM
Age: 27
Location
Dubuque
Their first album was blah and so is this album.

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theseed30
05/31/2007
09:10PM
Location
Cincinnati
just thought i would add that AP gave this disc a 4 1/2 out of 5 star effort, praising the band for "sticking to what made them popular in the first place."

damn...that's what i said a few days ago

i amaze myself
Chris Conlan
05/31/2007
09:13PM
Age: 27
Location
Dubuque
AP also gave Vanna a good score. Boo!

Plus I never said they had to change their sound. I still believe their first album was a bore. "A catchy melody can only take you so far".

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theseed30
06/01/2007
02:58PM
Location
Cincinnati
ChrisC
AP also gave Vanna a good score. Boo!

Plus I never said they had to change their sound. I still believe their first album was a bore. "A catchy melody can only take you so far".


I agree they will never make it big, but they have several catchy as hell tracks...

vanna blows