Silverstein - Rescue
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Senses FailHawthorne Heights
A Day To Remember
A Skylit Drive
Release Date
04/26/2011
Label
Hopeless RecordsTracklist
1. Medication2. Sacrifice
3. Forget Your Heart
4. Intervention
5. Good Luck With Your Lives
6. Texas Mickey
7. The Artist
8. Burning Hearts
9. Darling Harbour
10. Live To Kill
11. Replace You
12. In Memory Of…
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Every so often a band manages to reinvent themselves while in the twilight of their career. Most bands build up towards a climaxing point in their career, which eventually leads them into new territory as they progress and advance as musicians into newfound territory. Silverstein, however, have managed to keep the same formula over the years with their punk infused hardcore that shows tinges of pop-punk and easily relatable lyrics. Scorching their name into the scene in 2003 with When Broken is Easily Fixed, which has sold over 200,000 copies to date, and they then followed that up with Discovering the Waterfront, which debuted on the Billboard 200 with 26,229 copies sold in its first week of release. At that time, the band was poised to be the next Victory Records darlings to strike it big.
Following up their debut and sophomore albums were two releases that still kept the kids buying their records in droves, but the songwriting and songs themselves seemed to lack any staying power and quite easily forgotten. Trying to maintain some sort of relevance in the music scene the band put out a 7 song EP in late 2010 with their new record, Rescue, set to hit stores on April 26th, 2011.
Rescue marks the band's first release post-Victory, and this time around they have enlisted Hopeless Records/Universal to really give the band the much needed push they have been toiling to achieve. As a whole this is the record fans have been waiting for since Discovering the Waterfront made a lot of year-end lists in 2005. This album's debut track, "Medication," bubbles up nicely before pouring out into one of the standout tracks of the release, "Sacrifice," which features their trademark melodic approach, complete with juggling between clean and aggressive vocals, done quite well as always. Sorting through the songs may be a bit of a difficult task and they all seem to sound the same, except "Texas Mickey" which features Anthony Raneri of Bayside and the following song "The Artist" with Brenden Murphy of Counterparts. Those two guests add enough flair in the middle of the album to keep things interesting and inject a bit of life where listeners could potentially lose interest. Throughout the album, though, the band manages to keep your attention relatively well by mixing in some pop-punk and hardcore into the post-hardcore sound that has become their expected approach.
While the record doesn't offer any sort of progression for the band or drift into new uncharted territory, it still manages to be one of the more memorable albums from Silverstein and should be perfect for fans of the post-hardcore genre. If there's one thing Silverstein does well, it is to create an appealing record that can keep your attention just long enough until you find the next great release. It's worth your time for at least a few listens, but you might not come back to it a month down the road.
--Aaron Yarborough
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Lehigh Valley, PA
i despise this band
Atascadero, CA
it's a fun album, at least i reviewed something that came out this year... Bill...
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Bronx, New York City
possibly their best album yet. i never understood all the hate. i'm trying to think of what i enjoy more that's come out so far this year; i guess Social Distortion is up there, but that's it.
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Minneapolis, MN
Pretty standard record for Silverstein. I am sure I'll get addicted to it for awhile at some point. Though right now in this genre I am liking Funeral For a Friend better.
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Minnesota
Yeah, probably the band's best effort to date, but it's still a pretty mediocre affair that I'm completely bored with after one listen.
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Kansas
...I feel like this is a B-sides album off of Transitions...
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