Escape The
Fate - Dying Is Your
Latest Fashion
(2006)
Review
by Max Roach
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Escape
The Fate
Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
Tracks
1. The Web We
Weave
2. When I Go Out, I Want To Go Out On A Chariot Of Fire
3.
Situations
4. The Guillotine
5. Reverse This Curse
6.
Cellar Door
7. There's No Sympathy For The Dead
8. My
Apocalypse
9. Friends & Alibis
10. Not Good
Enough For Truth In Cliche
11. The Day I Left The
Womb
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"Dying
Is Your Latest Fashion" is Escape The Fate's follow up to their EP
"There's No Sympathy For The Dead".
Sounds joyful huh?
The EP
that
precurses this album was more easily recieved with five tracks leaning
toward the better side of the emo/alternative rock genre, whereas this
release has a softer overall sound, featuring uninspired tracks without
that edge that probably bought them the opportunty to record "Dying".
Even with their whirlwind success
as a band formed from
Myspace
friends to being tagged on to a My Chemical Romance bill winning them
their signing to Epitaph, they were unable to keep the
momentum
rolling to release a winning album.
This album is
incredibly
predictable and sounds hollow, wanting a target
audeince to
be uniformed youngsters new to the screamo/emo/fashionable punk scene.
Indeed, Escape The Fate has few redeeming qualities, however the singer
can carry off an acoustic tune (track 11 - acoustic song) without
sounding too overproduced, but you can tell that there was a decent
amount of production time spent on this album.
Although
you can go to a number of pubs and hear 10 bands a weekend with this
song-writing ability, this band has an attractive quality with hopes
that they would return to their previous energy found in their
EP "There's No Sympathy For The Dead".
But
unfortunately (and with the ousting of the vocalist from the band) it
seems unlikely that anything new will arrive soon...
I
find this album would be more suited to people new to the
screamo/emo/fashionable punk scene genre who will be able to move on
from this in six months time and warm up to something better.
Listen
to if you like "Finch", or dont listen to it.
RATING:
1.5 out of 5
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