Way to make the subtext text, bros…
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Jonathan Bogart: Oh, grow up.
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Patrick St. Michel: I guess angry high schoolers will always need songs like this. I sure don’t though.
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Ian Mathers: A pretty awful recent column in Forbes of all places (no, it doesn’t need more pageviews) dredged up the hoary old argument that rock music isn’t dead in the normally reactionary, mawkish terms that are always used for that kind of thing. But the fact is, rock is more subcultural than ever these days, and if this is the sort of thing that’s popular enough to be the above-water face of rock — mushily compressed guitars, horrible lyrics like “chamber’s empty, time to reload” that makes you glad the first 40 seconds of a three minute song are instrumental, “aggression” and “passion” that reads about as sincere and moving as a wet fart — no-one ought to be making excuses for the genre.
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Edward Okulicz: There’ll always be a market for this, and I don’t know if I find that encouraging (because I once owned a Funeral for a Friend album) or discouraging (because I once owned a Funeral for a Friend album), but it’s probably mostly the latter because of how clunky “Temper Temper” is. The riff doesn’t pile-drive, it just chugs really fast and doesn’t feel as if there’s any weight or tension in it. It’s as if speed and volume have been raised but the impact level feels really low. Not sure if it’s a writing or a production problem, but fifteen-year-old me wouldn’t even quietly brood with his eyes closed to this.
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Anthony Easton: This does not sound explosive. It sounds like a petulant infant.
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Alfred Soto: How on earth can they lose control with the dullest of powerdrill riffs urging them on?
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Brad Shoup: I’m pretty sure they’re constructing riffs with Vitamin String Quartet in mind, but if it produces something this blackened, that’s fine. Tuck’s great on the screeching, not so much on the glammier parts. Hearing someone talk about tempers in 2012 requires that I adjust; you might as well release a song about pensions.
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Ramzi Awn: Not sure if this was the best song to listen to after Thanksgiving family time, but I get his point.
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