Artist - My American Heart
Album - The Meaning In Make-up
Label - Warcon
Reviewer - Rev. Shakes Spear
Radio-gum mixed with faux brit-punk attitude.
My American Heart’s 4-track debut is rife with catchy riffs, steady beats and unoriginality. Being described as emo/punk, I was under the impression that that might mean emotional and punk – but I find little of either, especially the latter.
Check this:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Punk Rock is an anti-establishment music movement that began about 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified by The Damned, The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and The Clash. The term is also used to describe subsequent music scenes that share key characteristics with those first-generation "punks". The term is sometimes also applied to the fashions or the irreverent "DIY" ("do it yourself") attitude associated with this musical movement.
and this:
Noun punk rock - a harsh rock music from the 1970s with angry, sometimes offensive lyrics; a reaction against progressive rock
Apparently 900,000 total plays on purevolume.com proves your punk, now?
Check out ‘Interluded’ to hear an attempt at ‘seriousness’ with soft, spoken/sung vocals leading into screaming fits that finish off an obviously unfinished track.
To be honest, I can’t stand any band that thinks it has to scream to make a point. It’s old and tired –especially coming from bands that are young and fresh. Again, only proving that this band, along with a million others, don’t give a fuck about being unique – they’d rather get a deal than worry about craft. So be it. I hope they sell a million albums and you’ll all enjoy being fed this tasty nonsense.
If you love the radio-friendly filler, then you’ll love My American Heart – just enough softness for the girlies and a little bit of screaming so their boyfriends can say it’s cool, too. Great. Who the fuck needs Fugazi when you have My American Heart, right?
