Monday, October 03, 2005
abandon your preconceptions
so kxs hooked me up with her copy of from autumn to ashes' latest release abandon your friends. I read a bunch of reviews, albeit off amazon, and it looks like the whole world absolutely fucking hates it.
the knock against it was the standard "they sound nothing like [previous release]" and how they're alienating all their fans. ok, two things:
1. crying about it isn't going to deliver a new album of their old stylings.
2. people change.
idiots: bands do this all the time. look at the artists making music right now, and listen to their past several releases. if there isn't some discernable difference from one album to another, it's my personal opinion that those people are making music for the money (read: to appease the masses, their label) and not for themselves. or are completely devoid of creativity.
on the other side of the argument there are the bands that change their sound to a more readily digestible radio-friendly format upon signing with a big label. well, those people signed their "art" away for money and are no longer writing music for themselves either.
to sum everything up: get over it. really.
back to from autumn to ashes: the only thing I agree with the kiddies reviewing the album on amazon is that this is indeed two albums mashed into one. there are two very distinct styles on this album with a jagged line going right down the middle. it's not terribly cohesive, but at the same time I don't think I could handle a whole album of either style all on its own... so I guess this is the best format for it. the two styles I'm talking about here are the new-school wistful semi-metal emo and the frantic and justice for all-era metallica sound (yeah, not quite raw enough to be anything before justice). these are completely on the opposite ends of the FATA spectrum. and you know what, right now I prefer the wistful sounding stuff with the semi-metal stylings over the forced old school justice type songs.
the bottom line: do I like it? eh, it's okay.
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the knock against it was the standard "they sound nothing like [previous release]" and how they're alienating all their fans. ok, two things:
1. crying about it isn't going to deliver a new album of their old stylings.
2. people change.
idiots: bands do this all the time. look at the artists making music right now, and listen to their past several releases. if there isn't some discernable difference from one album to another, it's my personal opinion that those people are making music for the money (read: to appease the masses, their label) and not for themselves. or are completely devoid of creativity.
on the other side of the argument there are the bands that change their sound to a more readily digestible radio-friendly format upon signing with a big label. well, those people signed their "art" away for money and are no longer writing music for themselves either.
to sum everything up: get over it. really.
back to from autumn to ashes: the only thing I agree with the kiddies reviewing the album on amazon is that this is indeed two albums mashed into one. there are two very distinct styles on this album with a jagged line going right down the middle. it's not terribly cohesive, but at the same time I don't think I could handle a whole album of either style all on its own... so I guess this is the best format for it. the two styles I'm talking about here are the new-school wistful semi-metal emo and the frantic and justice for all-era metallica sound (yeah, not quite raw enough to be anything before justice). these are completely on the opposite ends of the FATA spectrum. and you know what, right now I prefer the wistful sounding stuff with the semi-metal stylings over the forced old school justice type songs.
the bottom line: do I like it? eh, it's okay.
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