See this review on I Am The Trend.
Today I went to my local HMV and searched for a good ten minutes before I finally went and asked someone if they had Breathe Carolina‘s new album “Hello Fascination” in stock, and, after another good ten minutes of them searching the computers and checking in the back storage, they didn’t have it in. They then tried to tell me that the album wasn’t even out yet. I now hate HMV with a passion. That’s my kvetch for the day.
So I went home and, reluctantly, cracked open a fresh iTunes gift card and bought the album online. This is my review of Breathe Carolina’s latest release “Hello Fascination”, dropped on AUGUST 18TH (eeerrghh) under Fearless Records.
The album, in general, started out fantastic for me and, after listening to it a few times over, got even better. The beginning of the first track, title track, and second single “Hello Fascination” gave me this odd Marilyn Manson-esque feeling, with it’s driving pulse, but that quickly went away. After seeing BC at the Vans Warped Tour this year and hearing some songs off of this album, I was pretty enthused to hear the whole thing.
It seems as though BC intentionally was trying to have a bit more aggressive album, as compared to the previous release “It’s Classy Not Classic”, and it certainly shows in songs like “I’m The Type Of Person To Take It Personal” and “I Have To Go Return Some Video Tapes”; but hey, I love it aggressive. A few of the songs, I might add, such as “Take Me To Infinity” give me this almost Latin feeling. But I think it’s just me.
Have you looked at their MySpace lately? One thing I’m most fascinated (HAHA GET IT?) with is the album art for this. They seem to have gone with some sort of rainbow river style artwork for this. It’s almost like paint splatters or something like it. But what I like is that they had the whole set on Warped set up with giant “B” and “C” paint splattered murals, and Sons of Nero managed to work their faces in to the MySpace design with rivers coming out their mouth and whatnot.
Great album. Great artwork. Loved it. Seriously. I have no complaints for this album.
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