Alright, I\u2019m not gonna lie; I got excited about this band because of their name. One of my defining teachers in high school was named Hembree. What I didn\u2019t expect or anticipate was this band\u2019s overall crappiness. They psych you out on the first track \u201cI Don\u2019t Know Why,\u201d which is a nice straightforward rocker, a great little track that shoots out of the speakers and might make you sit up at attention. And then, you hear the rest of the record\u2026<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, \u201cCulture\u201d is pure junk; it\u2019s all loops and not enough guitars. They started out interesting with heavy amplification, but the rest of the record sounds like Joywave with some amped up background atmospherics. \u201cRight Time\u201d is even worse; it just feels lifeless and doesn\u2019t do much to help this band\u2019s reputation. The band\u2019s approach is interesting. It\u2019s as if they\u2019ve taken elements of what they\u2019ve heard on \u201crock\u201d radio like Vance Joy, Silversun Pickups, and a little Imagine Dragons and put them all in a blender to elevate their own sound \u2013 and not with very great results.<\/p>\n
Towards the middle of the disc, things go from bad to worse. Songs like \u201cContinents\u201d and \u201cAlmost\u201d are just crap and make you push the skip button quickly to see if the rest of the record is as bad. It\u2019s hard to determine what made these guys think this stuff would be any good to discerning ears. Not all of it is pure garbage, though. \u201cNever See It\u201d almost has a Fitz and the Tantrums vibe to it and is not completely terrible.<\/p>\n
But \u201cSymmetry Lines\u201d is where I wanted to smash things. It sounds like a Jamiroquai song circa 1999, damn near disco, and it\u2019s enough to really piss you off. Why does every band want to sound like Maroon 5 or Imagine Dragons? Just because you get millions of streams and downloads does not mean you\u2019ll get respect and adoration. Having actually made it all the way through, I can say that this is one of the biggest disappointments I\u2019ve heard all year and makes me ashamed for getting my hopes up. After listening to crap like this, it makes one happy to hear a real rock band again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10371],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-45625","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-hembree","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45625","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=45625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45625"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45625"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}