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The Swear - Hotel Rooms and Heart Attacks
- Hotel Rooms and Heart Attacks’ track listing seems to have similar instrumentals hidden away that allude to already established bands. Each song is new and different, which is certainly a plus. The alternative rocky band, The Swear, delivers songs that range from brief instances of Green Day, all the way to split second double takes of Rage Against the Machine, to even something like Evanesence.
The Swear is certainly new as they do not sound like anyone else. It’s a bombastic tour de force sound that is clever and embraces a punky sort of hard rock. The band’s ballads are formulaic in the sense that each track acts as the ocean’s tides coming into shore and receding back out. There’s the slow bit between the big rifts and bellowing of a soul vocally.
Through the diversity mixed in, over the course of this album, it can be sometimes troublesome and a nuisance, some of the tactics used. There’s an inconsistency in the vocals when the lead singer’s voice seems to go from the norm to a distanced voice, like she’s singing from across the stage.
With a good number of tracks, there’s something for everyone to find on this album. The variety both works for The Swear and against them. The good is that no song is alike, thus it steers away from boredom. But the drawback is that the album is all over the place and runs rampant like a crazy loon in tighty whities running around like a chicken with his head cut off. The Swear utilizes a wide range of tactics to give us a buffet of music in which everyone can find something.
Reviewer: John Berkowitz
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Reviewer's Rating: 6.5
Reader's Rating: 9.00
Reader's Votes: 1
Added: 18-Aug-2008
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