Attack Attack! - Attack Attack!
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Asking AlexandriaOf Mice & Men
I Set My Friends On Fire
Release Date
06/08/2010
Label
Rise RecordsTracklist
1. "Sexual Man Chocolate"2. "Renob, Nevada"
3. "I Swear I'll Change"
4. "Shut Your Mouth" (featuring McSwagger)
5. "A for Andrew"
6. "Smokahontas"
7. "AC-130"
8. "Fumbles O'Brian"
9. "Turbo Swag"
10. "Lonely" (featuring Jason Cameron of Bury Tomorrow)
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The metalcore genre has its good bands and its terrible bands. Most of those terrible bands are just scene kids who wanted to make songs that have five or six breakdowns over a four minute span. Attack Attack! successfully falls under the terrible metalcore bands category, offering plenty of breakdowns, lots of synth, and even a pop song that sounds worse than most boy bands.
“Sexual Man Chocolate” opens the album with a piano driven opening, soon joined by a breakdown. The song has plenty of metalcore riffs for the verses, but the chorus is synth-driven and shows off the unpleasant, auto-tuned vocals of guitarist Johnny Franck. While the breakdowns are heavy and plentiful, this song immediately makes you wonder if the rest of the album is worth listening to. “Renob, Nevada” makes up for it, immediately opening with a “melt your face” breakdown. It's a decent song, filled with gang vocals, some heavy riffs, and it doesn't focus on being super synth-driven, like the rest of the band's songs.
“Shut Your Mouth” may be one of the worst songs that has ever been made. Attack Attack! just suddenly decides to be a boy band. The song sounds like a terrible Cobra Starship rip off, not including any instrumental work at all. It even makes you wonder if the band maybe just hasn't grown up and still wants to play pretend. If you want to be in a metalcore band, PLEASE do not decide to change your genre halfway through your album.
“A For Andrew” is another metalcore song, surprisingly. The whole song may qualify as a breakdown, but the creativity of the band is nowhere to be found. “Smokahontas” brings back the auto-tune, clean vocal chorus for the band, but it still doesn't sound any better than it did in “Sexual Man Chocolate”. “AC-130” sounds like another long, drawn out breakdown, which is not surprising at all.
The band decides to make a Lil Wayne sounding opener for “Fumbles O'Brien”, but thankfully, the band doesn't rap. The track is pretty much a bad popcore song, with a bridge that uses the word “shawty”. “Turbo Swag” is another bad metalcore song, and “Lonely” is a painful sounding pop song that ends with a long, unnecessary, dubstep instrumental.
Rise Records should have to pay to make you listen to this album. It is just a crap fest of metalcore and every other genre Attack Attack! could shove in. Do yourself a favor and ignore the existence of this album and, especially, this band.
--Dylan Newell
Comments
Minnesota
Ugghhh... I somewhat enjoyed their last album, but this one is pretty much utter crap. Gross.
And WTF is up with the "Shut Your Mouth" song... total boy band shit.
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Lehigh Valley, PA
SIGH...
Infinitely Inwards
This is a prime example of "not music". Party-Core......someone shoot them.
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Wilmington DE
One of the most original bands out there in our time.
I didn't here any auto-tune during the sexual chocolate song. Are you sure you are talking about the right song. It just sounds like some clean emo vocals. Not trying to say its good in any way though. Maybe the version on myspace is different.
Listening to:
Tides of Man
Oceansize
The Contortionist
We are the City
Periphery
Wilmington DE
actually listening to the3 songs on their myspace page it sounds like they actually dropped the whole auto-tune thing (I might be wrong). Thats why i'll give them 1.5 stars.
Listening to:
Tides of Man
Oceansize
The Contortionist
We are the City
Periphery
Illinois
ya, the autotune is present, it's less noticable cause they use it like every other pop singer, but it's there.
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Pittsburgh, PA
Auto tune pisses me off to no end.
RAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Wilmington DE
oh I see....I thought you were referring to the the lil-wayne style auto-tune that the lead singer of Attack Attack used on their last album and sounds like trash. I guess most pop music has a dash of traditional auto-tune I guess, unless of course someone can actually sing.
Listening to:
Tides of Man
Oceansize
The Contortionist
We are the City
Periphery
Pittsburgh, PA
That's the part that makes me the most angry; it can turn anybody into a "vocalist". It's almost a double-edged sword. In one sense there are more vocalists and most people who only have a slight appreciation for music don't really understand the difference, making it harder for singers to be appreciated. But on the other hand, it makes for a better distinction when you actually sing because people who understand these sorts of things appreciate a good singer more I guess.
Sorry for ranting... I just hate the way some people use auto tune.
RAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Bronx, New York City
with the exception of "Shut Your Mouth", this isn't the worst thing this year, let alone ever. in fact, Attack Attack excel at one thing: being remarkably mediocre.
--FTTW--
Wilmington DE
Yeah this is definitely not the worst album I've have heard this year....its just not a good album.
Listening to:
Tides of Man
Oceansize
The Contortionist
We are the City
Periphery