This Time Next Year - A Place For You - Escapist Records 004 - 2007
-- Tuesday, July 03, 2007
This Time Next Year play that melodic hardcore pop, much like Set Your Goals and even New Found Glory. A Place For You is their new release and it's pretty chill.
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This Time Next Year play that melodic hardcore pop, much like Set Your Goals and even New Found Glory. A Place For You is their new release and it's pretty chill.
Lately, the pop hardcore has really been growing on me. I blame Set Your Goals and Just Surrender. Something about those bands gets your head bobbing, your fist thumping your chest and your voice cracking with teenage sing alongs.
This Time Next Year is working towards that level of enthusiasm. This album is good, but I wouldn't call it great. It's definitely missing hooks. The hooks are what really pull people in on this genre of music. For this genre, if you can't get chubby teen girls to sing along, you are falling short of your potential. Chubby teen girls are the measuring stick for pop as far as I'm concerned. I enjoy the album but know I would enjoy it more if it was meatier, poppier, more in your face.
Pick it up, look into it. Look forward to upcoming future release and tours with great bands.
Lately, the pop hardcore has really been growing on me. I blame Set Your Goals and Just Surrender. Something about those bands gets your head bobbing, your fist thumping your chest and your voice cracking with teenage sing alongs.
This Time Next Year is working towards that level of enthusiasm. This album is good, but I wouldn't call it great. It's definitely missing hooks. The hooks are what really pull people in on this genre of music. For this genre, if you can't get chubby teen girls to sing along, you are falling short of your potential. Chubby teen girls are the measuring stick for pop as far as I'm concerned. I enjoy the album but know I would enjoy it more if it was meatier, poppier, more in your face.
Pick it up, look into it. Look forward to upcoming future release and tours with great bands.
Grandville - S/T - TV Eye Records 2005
-- Monday, February 05, 2007
Grandville reminds me of the WB. You know, The WB. The previous home of ground breaking tv programming like 7th Heaven, The Gilmore Girls, Charmed and Dawson's Creek. Over the years, that network has been responsible for the making of several prominent artists. Grandville seems like a band that is striving for WB hype, as if they were shooting for a track to be played on One Tree Hill.
Normally, I am a big fan of poppy music. But something about this album just doesn't cut it for me. If this comparison is possible, I would say these guys sound like an extra whiney Dashboard Confessional infused with some Hanson Brothers MMM Bop. Yeah, I know, that's hard to reach. But that's what I'm getting out of this album. I would expect these guys to be heart broken high schoolers where in reality, they appear to be 30+ grown adults. Who'd have guessed?
For more pics, a chance to hear the music or a friendly message from the band, you can check out Grandville at one of their many promotional websites: here. here, here or here.
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