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| Album Overview |
Title: Valentine's Day Massacre
Release Date:
14 January 2008
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| Our Review |
| Feel |
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64 |
| Stickyness |
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50 |
| Life |
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68 |
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62 |
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Valentine's Day is fast approaching, at least it is if you are reading this close enough to when it was published. Interestingly enough, and not by coincidence we are also approaching the most depressing day of the year - at least according to a British study based on things like how many people phone in sick to work.
So while the rest of society is blowing money in chocolate shaped into hearts and packaged up for twice the price (ha, note the conviction I say it with despite the fact I occasionally indulge in such activites), Vitamin Records have come up with a novel idea. The result is Valentine's Day Massacre, a string quartet tribute tagged "the emo anti-Valentine's Day collection."
It actually sounds pretty good. While you are missing the whiney vocals of an emo kid screaming about how much life sucks, if your musical tastes venture beyond the realm of the emo genre this isn't specifically a bad thing (fair enough if your tastes don't, an expanding music taste is really just a sign of growing old much as I try to deny it). It doesn't possess the angry scream along attitude which made the original songs great it does suite a more relaxed listening style which still retaining the catchy riffs.
The track choices are interesting. Obviously the likes of Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco are good choices for such an album. But interesting it opens with a cover of Hey There Delilah by Plain White T's. Not exactly the spirit of emo but with other arts including My Chemical Romance and Hawthorne Heights I'm sure this can be overlooked.
All in all it does a great job of translating the guitar heavy songs into a string instrument format which is no doubt far harder than it initially seems. If nothing else this anti-Valentine's Day album would, ironically, make an excellent Valentine's Day gift for anyone looking for something a little different. |
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