September Music Destructicon Part THREE

So yeah, Raam and I were playing Pixelvader on co-op, and we both have this theory that you can get high from playing the game while listening to Still Alive. Seriously, it was the trippiest thing I've ever done.

In more important stuffs, the best album I downloaded this September:



Now, I'm a metalhead, so normally, when a Paramore album is the best I download in a month, I get depressed, and a sick part of my brain thinks that cutting myself would be a neat way to get revenge on Three Days Grace and Skillet. But I'm not complaining about Brand New Eyes pwning the month of September because it is zetta awesomeness in audio file format.

Considering it was a debut album, All We Know is Falling wasn't that bad. Their second album, Riot, took on a more rock/less pop sound, and was the better album mainly because it had Misery Business on it. Sure, it also had Crushcrushcrush, but I'm willing to overlook such fatal errors when you've got an album like Riot.

But now, Paramore has gone back to the more pop/less rock style of All We Know is Falling, only different still. It seems kind of embarrassing for Paramore to still not have really found a sound they're comfortable with. Ignorance is the only song that continues in the direction Riot started, with every other song taking a step backwards. To complicate things, Ignorance is the best song on the album. Now what am I supposed to make at that? Does this mean Paramore was better off with the style of Riot, or is that simply just probability?

But then again, the album does deliver in quality. HaYley Williams added in some more variety in her singing, indicating that the band still has plenty of room to evolve. Sure, her singing's imperfect at times, such as in the chorus of the only exception, but overall, HaYley did a much better job singing on this album than she did on Paramore's previous albums. The guitar playing also improved, but not by as much as the singing did. The drumming stayed about the same (not to my liking)('cause I'm a metalhead), but yeah, I can't really complain when the singing and guitar playing are both better.

The lyrics of Riot actually seemed like they got worse, but Brand New Eyes corrected that mistake. The choruses are sometimes iffy, but the subject matter of the lyrics makes for a more interesting listen than songs that contain lines like, "Let's be more than this," and some of the lyrics in the verses and bridges are zetta praiseworthy. Definitely room for improvement, but also good as it stands.

Brand New Eyes is Paramore's best album, but it also doesn't feel like it will stay their best. Paramore's still got a long way to go before they've reached their best, which is saying something considering the level they're on right now.