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Written by Dave Faulhaber
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
Stay Inside
Rock Ridge Music
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Creating music takes creativity, emotion, and a passion for what you’re doing. In the process, it also requires you to learn and to grow.
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 For their sake I hope that Sound the Alarm can grow from their debut album, Stay Inside. It is disappointing to see such immensely talented musicians produce such a forgettable CD. Not to mention hard to believe. With producer Howard Benson on hand, (My Chemical Romance, The All American Rejects) something should have been done with the lackluster choruses. The good news is these guys are still young, and still have time to find themselves. It is one thing to get inspiration from your idols, but don’t become them.
Also, it’s understandable for the lyrics to be about teenage issues when you yourself are that age, so that can’t be held against the band, but it’s hard to believe that any of the lyrics actually contained any meaning. Few of the songs on this album, if any, produced any sort of hook, with the exception of Closer which came close. The majority of the album was remnant of Relient K and The Starting Line, maybe even some Taking Back Sunday in some songs, and contained repetitive emo lines in songs such as Fact or Fiction. Again though, nothing really stood out to me, and I didn’t hear that “hit” song that bands strive for. However, with the state of music being how it is, it wouldn’t surprise me if this record became immensely popular.
| | With the rise of bands like Fallout Boy and Dashboard Confessional, there is hope for the pop-punk emo quintet in the mainstream world. Furthermore, towards the end of the album, there were some killer guitar solos, and the entire record was surrounded with imaginative drumming. I give the band credit for coming so far at such a young age, but hope that they know they still have a mountain to climb. For more information on Sound the Alarm, check out myspace.com/soundthealarmmusic | | |
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