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THE STREETS, THE SOUNDS AND THE LOVE

EYEBALL (04/10/07)

Many music styles come and go for a reason. They’re either absolute rubbish or so very different that even the underground doesn’t develop a taste for the oddness. New Atlantic falls in the former category. Emo-alternative rock/pop, or whatever form it takes week by week, has walked its course. The genre’s beginnings weren’t so bad. Coheed and Cambria, Stavesacre, and Dashboard Confessional were all solid bands back in the day, though, woefully no longer. Their highly uncreative progeny, however, now saturate the fledging music industry (now, I wonder why the industry continues to suffer??), coming in slightly different, but always atrocious forms. Now, to be fair, the indie and alternative music world has its own share of worthless drawbacks that do more harm than good, but at least they make their run and then get the hell out of the way. For the emo scene, though, there will always be one more, whiny, crushed heart that demands to be heard. From the oh, so tired-out “Cold-Hearted Town” to the characteristic piano driven weeper, “Late Night Television,” no surprises will be found, just more epic tearjerkers that lack any real creative emotion.

~ Wes Barker


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