Love or Hate?

Trollheart · 01-19-2016, 08:38 AM

Title: Mister Asylum
Artiste: Highly Suspect
Genre: Alt-Rock
Familiarity: Zero
Recommended by: DwnWthVwls

Expectations: Not the first idea.

1. Mister Asylum: Straight into it anyway, with a big fuzzy guitar and a sort of lo-fi vocal, then it takes shape as a pounding rocker, very energetic. Like the way the guitar drives the song.
2. Lost: Faster rocker with a great boogie beat. Great ending.
3. Lydia: Kind of a grunge influence to this one. Kind of. The chorus certainly. The midsection and buildup from that is cool.
4. Bath salts: There's a great sense of desperation and even panic in this. The guitars bite and snap and the vocal is harrowing. Very powerful. The guitar riff is immense, and there's an excellent solo near the end.
5. 23: Just kind of keeps hammering you into submission, in a good way. These riffs would not be out of place on a metal album.
6. Mom: This starts very gently, and is the longest track on the album at almost five minutes. Oh, there it goes on another heavy riff. Mind you, now the riff is getting staggered, fragmented. Sort of boogeying along now. Seems to be a pretty bitter lyric, referring to a guy writing to the mother who abandoned him. Heavy. The riff is correspondingly angry and sharp.
7. Bloodfeather: Good pounding beat to this. Not a lot else though.
8. Fuck me up: Sort of punk energy, quite entertaining.
9. Vanity: Another one full of energy and some powerful riffs. Really good melody near the end there.
10. Claudeland: Exactly who is Claude, and why are we in his land? Good fast rocker to end anyway; superb solo. The slow blues ending is perfect.

End result: A fun album, chock-full of riffs and catchy tunes.

So, Love or Hate? Finally! One I can Love.

01-19-2016, 08:38 AM	#10 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Title: Mister Asylum Artiste: Highly Suspect Genre: Alt-Rock Familiarity: Zero Recommended by: DwnWthVwls Expectations: Not the first idea. 1. Mister Asylum: Straight into it anyway, with a big fuzzy guitar and a sort of lo-fi vocal, then it takes shape as a pounding rocker, very energetic. Like the way the guitar drives the song. 2. Lost: Faster rocker with a great boogie beat. Great ending. 3. Lydia: Kind of a grunge influence to this one. Kind of. The chorus certainly. The midsection and buildup from that is cool. 4. Bath salts: There's a great sense of desperation and even panic in this. The guitars bite and snap and the vocal is harrowing. Very powerful. The guitar riff is immense, and there's an excellent solo near the end. 5. 23: Just kind of keeps hammering you into submission, in a good way. These riffs would not be out of place on a metal album. 6. Mom: This starts very gently, and is the longest track on the album at almost five minutes. Oh, there it goes on another heavy riff. Mind you, now the riff is getting staggered, fragmented. Sort of boogeying along now. Seems to be a pretty bitter lyric, referring to a guy writing to the mother who abandoned him. Heavy. The riff is correspondingly angry and sharp. 7. Bloodfeather: Good pounding beat to this. Not a lot else though. 8. Fuck me up: Sort of punk energy, quite entertaining. 9. Vanity: Another one full of energy and some powerful riffs. Really good melody near the end there. 10. Claudeland: Exactly who is Claude, and why are we in his land? Good fast rocker to end anyway; superb solo. The slow blues ending is perfect. End result: A fun album, chock-full of riffs and catchy tunes. So, Love or Hate? Finally! One I can Love. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018