Okay, so you have Davey Havok from AFI and Tom Dumont, Adrian Young and Tony Kanal from No Doubt forming a new band. Expectation is high, right? What are you gonna get? Punk, alternative, what?? Well, what we have here is some decently good new wave inspired pop tunes. Definitely a downer\u2014not what I was expecting, at least. \u201cKill For Candy,\u201d the first single, is one of the most disappointing tracks of the year.<\/p>\n
From the opening riff of the first track, \u201cAfter I Confessed,\u201d I got a very heavy Flock of Seagulls vibe\u2014compressed drumming and a lot of ambience. Davey\u2019s vocals are okay but this is definitely a shock to the ears. Oh, God. \u201cOn The Charts\u201d comes off sounding like Neon Trees! What has been wrought here, just mediocrity at its worst.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll Of The Dead Girls Love Me\u201d is one of the more rewarding tracks here, but overall this band just isn\u2019t what it could\u2019ve been. Turning up the guitars and turning off the keyboards would\u2019ve worked a lot better and made this record much more memorable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Assailant\u201d is the best song here; great vocals, good guitar work and sounding more like an alternative rock record than most of the other tracks. Too bad it\u2019s too damn short. \u201cSlip On The Moon,\u201d another decent track, strips back some of the new wave tendencies and shows what the band could\u2019ve been if only they\u2019d tried harder.<\/p>\n
This is probably one of the most disappointing releases by a \u201csupergroup\u201d since No Devotion (members of Thursday and lostprophets.) This record could\u2019ve been a complete washout if it wasn\u2019t for two decent tracks. All in all, let\u2019s hope this is a band that only stick around for one record and nothing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10003],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-44949","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-dreamcar","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44949"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44949"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}