with A Static Lullaby By Tim Byrnes
I Hate Myself and Want to Die, Baby
(In E minor)
A Static Lullaby are 5 twentysomethings out of Chino Hills, CA (Joe Brown, vox-Nathan Lindeman, guitar- Dan Arnold, guitar,vox- Phil Pirrone, bass,vox and Brett Dinovo, drums) who stand to cut a pretty wide swath across the emo/screamo landscape while appealing to the goth/mope/bad-high-school-poetry crowd as well. The boys rock like a chair, I admit it. I'm as much a sucker as anyone for supercharged guitar lines heading off in all directions while the vocals stack like cordwood into 3 part, crystal mesh harmonies who's effect is so bracing as to make lyrics like "misery is so beautiful" sound like war cries, but "misery is so beautiful" is a piss-poor war cry at best, no matter how much Mott the Hoopla you surround it with. Blessed with an imaginative drummer and a better than average sense of arrangement, ASL avoid the soft verse/loud chorus monotony of much �new� music, instead creating their own beast built from equal parts hardcore, goth, quasi-industrial and that whole emo-screamo-emo-core ( all sounds like the Buzzcocks to me, kids) thing that power pop's been calling itself lately. Musically, this CD rocks. And rolls. And even swings in places. Lyrically, however, there's just too much over dramatic, �gosh-I'm-a-poet!' poor baby got his heart broke stuff like the following: "A kiss turns to brandy
and "Shadows of demons
Or this gem, my favorite, from Love to Hate, Hate to Me (Dig them crazy titles. Scary, huh?) "Tonight I will sleep with a gun in my
mouth
I'm sure that these lyrics make sense to somebody and probably seem to address their situation on a fundamental and comforting level, and if so and if you are reading this, please take the gun out of your mouth. Thank you.
A Static Lullaby - Don't Forget to Breathe
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