Blasphemy

Remember that time I said I wasn't going to post anything on my site until finals were over? yeah, right. So, I've been check-checking the new music lately, and let me be the first to tell you that Emo is officially dead. Well, at least Halfwayhome's brand of Emo. It's trite, it's cliched, they can't play guitar, and they certainly can't sing. Yeah, it's painful alright. Painful to listen to. The lead singer has all the intonation of Ashlee Simpson and a mother raccoon trying to protect her nest.

The production is on par with a white stripes album - that is to say, there is no production. This works for the white stripes, who can pull a small symphony out of a scrotal incubator, but not for Halfwayhome, whose cover art features women playing lawn tennis in dresses WITH BLOOD! If you're not scared by now, you'll probably listen and irrevocably damage your sense of good taste.

Next album: Bayside's "Sirens and Condolences" another emo masterpiece by the same people that brought you Hawthorne Heights and the new Celine Dion album. The album cover features a woman wearing a tube top, who had apparently fallen down a flight of stairs. Platitudes aside, I think this would be better suited for a life-alert ("help, I've fallend and I can't get up") commercial than an emo album cover. I mean, where are the razorblades? ... and of course the women playing lawn tennis WITH BLOOD! I don't really remember much about the album, which is to say it sounded like every other crappy emo album. Clean tubed guitars with expensive amps, a mediocre singer, and then we'll scream and do some more non-chorded guitars, scream, etc. Don't buy it - jump off a cliff.

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