Vetrus Reviews: "Voices"

Vetrus Reviews: "Voices"

By: Matchbook Romance

Overview: If you think this album is anything like MR's first album, RE-THINK. This album is made at such higher vocal, lyrical, instrumental, and atmospherically levels, it doesn't even resemble “Stories and Alibis” in the slightest. Deliciously dark, captivating and enchanting, this is one of my favorite albums of all time. If ever there were a comparison between matchbook romance and my chemical romance, it would be “Voices” and “The Black Parade”

Highlight songs:

You can run, but we'll find you- Beginning the concept of what seems to be a horror story, the band comes to you as a team of veritable monsters and warns you, there is no escape.

Goody, like two shoes- nice wordplay on the old phrase. But this song BLARES Lyrical brilliance. With such lines as “My heartbeat was louder than the sound of my steps to your door” and “You're cold, but you're beautiful, you're a mess, but I like it that way” rivaling Muse's lyrical prowess. I can't forget to mention one of the best sudden riff breakdowns in modern “emo” music.

Monsters- “Girl, what's come between you and me? You look right through me.” Guitar hero 3-ists probably faced this difficult song eventually, and hopefully enjoyed it. A Killer solo between chants of the band self-declaring themselves monsters makes this a simply spellbinding song. The monsters are calling.

Say it like you mean it- a break from the metal chords brings us the delicate guitar of the following song to “monsters”, with ever more genius lyrics. “the brilliant lights, flanks my blinds, sends ghosts back to their graves, and us back to life.” Also, “The best is when you say the worst is over, it's like saying we had luck with a three leaf clover, and you kept saying that over and over” but that alone is not the full extent of the speed-rap length rhyme schemes that appear in this song.

Fiction- “You found revenge in the bed, and it only cost you a name, you make me sick, sick to my stomach” The only truly hateful song on the album, begs to understand faithlessness and betrayal, and the music reflects his rage and loathing to a seething scale. The Monsters are furious.

Don't ever forget me- Contrast was clearly the name of the game deciding the track listing of “voices”, as the most furious song is followed by words fit for the finest love poems. Lyrics still getting better, I end with this final quote “I would leave to return more lost than before, a little more tired, a little less sure of where I was. The earth would move, but we would stand in place, hide in the shadows of the day, we're almost out of time.”

Review: It surprises me every time I listen to it, and I feel I can do nothing but underrate this album, since I promised myself never to give another album a 10 out of 10, but yet the rating stands as it is, with the mention of a major deciding factor, ALBUM ART/ INSERT. Brilliant is all I can say. The lyrics are printed side by side with Tim Burton-esqe characters appearing in the most dark and unusual of surroundings. The lyrics are misprinted however, and that is why it is so good. If you put together all the differently colored letters in the lyrics, you get the lyrics to the hidden track at the end of the album, but the genius doesn't end there! Included with the slipcase style packaging is a transparency screen with black lines drawn across it, that only bewilders the discoverer until understanding it's purpose. Patterns in the pictures in the book can be decoded to reveal secret messages about the “voices inside the walls” and the words of the monsters themselves, like “mind your skull, lest it become my chowder bowl” or, “purchase at your peril, oh wretched believers of Non” The Monsters of Matchbook Romance receive a rating of-

9.7 out of 10

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