Ohio band Attack! Attack! is back with their third album as they prepare for this year’s Warped Tour. After several years of trial and error, the band has settled on yet another lead singer: their longtime keyboardist Caleb Shomo. Lets see how he does…
TRACK ONE
“Everyone Knows” is a promising beginning to the album, with a basic but catchy electric guitar riff and a similarly relentless drum beat. The lyrics are passionately sung, but the actual content is fairly uninspired. Easy-to-dance-to music for the young “rebel” who prefers their relentless righteous anger to go no further then their facial expression while they’re dancing.
TRACK TWO
“No Excuses” follows with more driving guitar and drums in a, in all honesty, similar track to the first. There is a different pace and a different and more varied guitar riff to tickle the eardrums and a far different opening, but the song carries the same tone and message. If you only kind of liked the first track, here is a different version.
TRACK THREE
“My Shoes” starts off with… driving guitar and drums. However, we’ve got the durms taking the lead here, and the lyrics are spit out in a resentful fashion, so I’d say its the best of the first three tracks. Again, its the same but different from what we’ve gotten thus far on the album, the lyrics are almost inspired, and the guitar almost makes be want to nod my head along with the beat.
TRACK FOUR
“Blood on My Hands” has a little crooning and a plucky little guitar riff at the opening. I was hopeful for a change of pace so I could hear a little more of this band’s range, and for a while they delivered. The drumming was deliberate and bold and …repetitive. The bass and the guitar wove together to be… a plucky little riff… and… more… oh, it changed to another version of itself. And now the lyrics are falling back into the same rut they were earlier on the album. Still, a change of pace and a slight improvement.
WANT TO KNOW THE BOTTOM LINE? You’re gonna have to go here, bitch.
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