Arsonists Get All The Girls - Listen To The Color
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On Thursday, August 1, 2013
Track list:
1. Setting Course For Disaster
2. When I Was Your Age Pluto Was Still A Planet
3. Bottle City
4. MK-ULTRA: Psychotropic Puppets
5. MK-DELTA: Glorified Killers (ft. Cameron Reed)
6. Disease Test The Best
7. Balloon Battle
8. Listen To The Color (ft. Robby Bancroft)
9. Beast Fist
10. Bardonis Chonies
11. Play the sheep
12. My Newest Vision” (ft. Rob Smith)
13. Ride The Wave (ft. Garin Rosen)
14. Watchers
15. Sunny Places For Shady People
Genre: Experimental Metal
For Fans Of: Iwrestledabearonce, Dr Aucla, See You Next Tuesday.
1. Setting Course For Disaster
2. When I Was Your Age Pluto Was Still A Planet
3. Bottle City
4. MK-ULTRA: Psychotropic Puppets
5. MK-DELTA: Glorified Killers (ft. Cameron Reed)
6. Disease Test The Best
7. Balloon Battle
8. Listen To The Color (ft. Robby Bancroft)
9. Beast Fist
10. Bardonis Chonies
11. Play the sheep
12. My Newest Vision” (ft. Rob Smith)
13. Ride The Wave (ft. Garin Rosen)
14. Watchers
15. Sunny Places For Shady People
Genre: Experimental Metal
For Fans Of: Iwrestledabearonce, Dr Aucla, See You Next Tuesday.
I’m not even going to lie, Arsonists Get All The Girls have
changed. I mean, look at that artwork, it’s phsychedelic, and probably the most
creative artwork so far. If you look at the track list, you see a few neat
guest vocalists, such as their old vocalist/keyboardist. Arsonist Get All The
Girls also added some rather trippy songs to their album. I mean, this is a
self-released album, so I don’t really think they had a red line on what to
write about, it was basically all up to them. I’m not complaining, it’s
actually pretty neat. It shows how the bands maturing, and improving their
techniques with some things. Plus, this album is fifteen songs of heaviness for
your ears. Some of the songs are interludes, but they’re amazingly abstract…
well, some of them are, which isn't really a bad thing. However, some people
consider them to be a waste. I personally love interludes, but some people hate
them. Most of the “trippy” songs, like I said, are both abstract and
phsychedelic. One thing on this album that I find highly enjoyable, is the
little produced vocals. There isn't really a lot on the vocals in order to give
it more of a powerful hit. The high vocals just come at you with a huge punch,
and it’s rather insane getting to hear them. At first, I was blaring this
album, and that came on and scared my dog a little bit (He’s not about this
life.) A few songs that stand out on this album would have to be, “Setting A
Course For Disaster”, “When I Was Your Age Pluto Was Still A Planet”, “Bottle
City”, “MK-DELTA: Glorified Killers (ft. Cameron Reed)”, “Balloon Battle”,
“Listen To The Color (ft. Robby Bancrof)”, “Play The Sheep”, “Ride The Wave
(ft. Garin Rosen)”, and “Sunny Places For Shady People”. “Setting A Course For
Disaster”, is basically an intro to the album (This might actually be the bands
intro at shows. I’ll have to go to one, and find out) and it kind of gives the
album a small push to start. “When I Was Your Age Pluto Was Still A Planet”, I
honestly thought this was one of the funniest song names on this album, and the
funniest song name from Arsonists Get All The Girls to date. This song gives
the album more of a bigger push to start, and it sort of connected to “Setting
Course For Disaster”. “Bottle City”, is one of the first actual songs on the
album, and this song gives the album everything it needs to start off great.
The intros gave it its push, now it’s really on with “Bottle City”. “Bottle
City” shows off how the band has improved, and matured within two minutes. The
song is also pretty catchy, and it's one of my favorites on the album.
“MK-DELTA: Glorified Killers” (ft. Cameron Reed)”, well, I've never really
heard of bands letting an ex-member hop on a track in the studio, live maybe,
but this is sort of new to me. Older fans probably favorite this song as soon
as the track list was shown. Both new, and old vocalists made this song to be
something seriously unique. I really don’t think a band could ever take
Arsonists Get All The Girls place in metal, because of how unique their music
is. Their song structure is the thing that I like the most about them, and their
vocals. You can’t forget the vocals on their albums. Their vocals change every
so often with style, and sound. The range also changes which just gives every
album a new sound, and helps to create something better than the last album
that was released. I've been a fan of this band for a while, and I won’t lie,
but almost everything they've released has seriously impressed me. This band
should have blown up a while ago, because of how unique they are. The ex-member
being featured on a song didn't really ruin the album at all. If anything, it
gave it some spice, and to me it was pretty new. I won’t complain because both
vocalists have powerful vocals. “Balloon Battle”, I think this song is from
Mario? Or the intro is anyway. This song is more of the abstract kind of song
on the album, and it was definitely better than a short interlude. The synth on
this song is just... wow, something amazing. A lot of people will probably end
up crying about how this song was a waste of time, and all this (Who really
cares?) It’s not a waste of anything, and if you love synth, this would be the
main song for you. “Listen To The Color” (ft. Robby Bancrof)”, is the title
track on this album, and it gives the album a good name. I’d have to say that I
did really enjoy most of the songs on this album, even the rather trippy ones.
This song starts off somewhat trippy, but hey, it’s still really enjoyable!
“Play The Sheep”, was one of the only singles that I heard off the album, and I loved it. This song
is literally my favorite song on this album, because of its sound. It’s all
over the place, and then it gets calm with a phsychedelic synth part. The synth
on this album sticks out more than the drumming, and guitar playing. It’s
rather new, as well. “Ride The Wave” (ft. Garin Rosen)”, uh... if anything,
this song is sort of weird… I mean it starts off with some beach theme, and
some clean vocals, which isn't that bad, honestly. But it was sort of new to
hear. The flow of this song is pretty nice. It’d be a song that I hope would
get played live. However, it probably won’t because it sticks out like a sore
thumb on this album. “Sunny Places For Shady People” is another rather
interesting song title. This is the last song, sadly. But it ended off the
album on an abstract note! The drum play on this song would be the part that
this song would be known for, in my books. The drumming is pretty neat, and you
can really tell that the drummer wanted his solo, and that’s just what he got!
Breakdown:
Cleans: There’s not a lot of clean vocals on this album, but
the parts that do include them.. are rather nice, and done a bit differently
than what I expected to hear. I’m not going to really say much about the clean
vocals, because I want it to be a bit of a surpise to people. That will give
this album a spin for the first time. However, what I will say is that the
clean vocals are definitely done a bit differently than what you might be used
to, and the song that the clean vocals show up the most in is different.
Screams: The screams are very much improved, and insane.
There’s not really a lot of production behind them, which gives them more power
and that is rather nice. I honestly got a headache on a few songs, because of
the screams (I’m not that brutal.) But, they were all done so nicely, and I loved
the low, and high range on this album. They really made the screams stick out a
bit more.
Instrument: All of the instrument play was rather good, and
also improved compared to older releases. If anything, this band is on the
right track to become pretty big in their careers, and I will stick with them
no matter what. Their synth playing on this album would be the parts that have
really improved, and they were rather interesting to be able to listen to.
Also, the drum play on the last song was absolutely phenomenal. Man, this album
turned out to be a real treat to listen to. I definitely recommend this album
to people to listen to, as well!
Rating: 8/10
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