![]() Songs like ‘You Can Run, But We’ll Find You’, and ‘Goody Like Two Shoes’ might respectively make use of harsh riffs and pedals, but also have frequent compositional elements that are far more quiet, and focus more on the low, slowed down beat. ![]() Whether working with a waltz beat or typical 4/4, many of the songs range in tempo on this release, and depending on how low the tone is on a certain song, the pacing really adds to the saturated sadness, and sometimes even overtakes other components, standing center stage solely for its own drive. Much like other Post-Hardcore and Pop-Punk groups of this time, Matchbook Romance makes prominent use of Classical Music influences within this album, namely through such said samplings, and an occasional somber 3/3 pacing. It relies more on the mixed, clean singing and basic Rock band instruments, with occasional samplings of piano and strings. ![]() All of these songs can be either foreboding and angsty, or somber and melancholic, yet highly amenable to a wide audience, due to its lack of overtly heavy sections, breakdowns or screamed vocals. It’s a bit like a bubbling surface, in which there are different levels of energy throughout most tracks. So, with that, let’s get into the album ‘Voices’ properly.Īs mentioned earlier, ‘Voices’ tends to go for a much darker, gloomy sector of the Emo genre, influenced and upheld by laces of Indie Rock, Pop-Punk, Post-Hardcore and even a bit of Progressive experimentation. But by exploring their work, predominantly their latest album, we might get to see the footnotes and foundations of something even stronger than what it currently is. While having released a couple of successful studio records, perhaps they were never able to reach for a more masterful level of musicianship that other groups have. I think even though Matchbook Romance isn’t one of the best remembered or impactful names of this music scene, and even though they are once again on a permanent hiatus, the short growth and play around of this group is worth perusing. ![]() Even if you aren’t initially a fan of this kind of music, there’s a crawling rhythm to most songs on this album that will have you banging your head or tapping your foot along. With the instruments toned down a notch or two and the vocals of the lead singer going deeper and more smooth, we get a track list that’s gloomy and depressive, yet propelled forwards with very groovy melodies and catchy choruses. ‘Voices’ makes a bit of a departure from the band’s initial sound and drives itself into a darker side road. Matchbook Romance’s second album ‘Voices’ on the other hand is a different story. Even though songs such as ‘Your Stories, My Alibis’, ‘Lovers and Liars’ and ‘My Eyes Burn’ do stand out as decent favorites from the album. The style used on ‘Stories and Alibis’ is honestly something I could take or leave at this point. Their first album ‘Stories And Alibis’ was very stripped down, rough around the edges, and highly indicative of the Indie underground scene of the 90’s, initially enforced and brought about by bands like Sunny Day Real Estate, but also The Get Up Kids, and to a lesser extent, Weezer. During the early 2000’s the band released one Ep and two full length studio albums. Matchbook Romance was a second wave Emo band that formed during the year 1997 and would eventually sign with Epitaph Records. Never heard of these guys? Well that’s okay. I am of course talking about Matchbook Romance. Only this band will be mired in the dark, gloomy Punk and Alternative strains of the early 2000’s and unlike the slightly more upbeat Sunny Day Real Estate, will dash your hopes in the most grooviest ways possible. But today, I will be focusing on a different band that does rather resemble them in style. I actually really liked ‘Diary’, and I certainly wouldn’t say no to reviewing it at a later date. This week, I chose to listen to the album ‘Diary’ by the 90’s band, Sunny Day Real Estate, and since hearing it during my late teen year, many of the songs on the album are beginning to grow on me. Well, this week I shall be applying the same rule of listening to one album and reviewing another. But because I didn’t find it as enjoyable as I’d hoped, I instead chose to review a band and album that was close to them in style, but generally more my speed and temperament. So if you read the last review I wrote, you’ll know that my initial intention had been to talk about the first and only studio release by the band, Rites Of Spring.
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