posted 09/21/2005 (Wed) @ 10:25 pm
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Moments in Grace - Moonlight Survived (2004)
Bland, uncompelling crap.
- Stratus
- The Patient
- Broken Promises
- My Dying Day
- We Feel The Songs
- My Stunning Bride
- Monologue
- Distant and Longing Light
- The Blurring Lines of Loss
- No Angles
- Don’t Leave
- The Past
If the vying-for-a-position-at-an-Italian-restaurant (in terms of sheer ability to grate cheese) vocal melody that comprises “My Dying Day”’s verse riff doesn’t put this record in a coffin, the staggeringly oblivious, unintentional melodrama that is the rest of “Moonlight Survived” does.
The way this guy reaches for high notes is almost enough to incite pity. Almost. Furthermore, like every other band that sounds insipidly similar to Moments in Grace, when Griffith is not stretching to hit notes or affecting a terrible falsetto, he’s singing in a style so bland it makes tofu-core seem like a viable genre.
Maybe it has something to do with the production, or perhaps with the penchant certain bands have for eschewing actual dynamics in favor of a distortion pedal, but this music is so lifeless it could be the end credits to a movie depicting someone’s decomposition at the mercy of worms.
Steer clear, and remember: emo (and any other, less vomit-inducingly named style of music, for that matter) doesn’t work without emotion.
