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Parties Break Hearts are a four piece band from
Bern in Switzerland they are influenced by Story
Of The Year, Lost Prophets, Reuben, Jimmy Eat world
and many other great bands across the world, I am
guessing that they got the band name Parties Break
Hearts from the classic song by one of their favourite
bands Reuben, anyway the band have put together
a full length album titled 'Life Is Too Short To
Dance With Ugly People' and to be fair it’s
well worth a listen or two.
The album starts with 'Scrape!' which opens with
Martins loud and clear vocals over some tinny
sounds, seconds later the song really kicks off
as the dual assault of guitars come in whacking
the song up a notch or two in sound, soon after
Marks vocals come in and we are treated to duel
vocals from the band, the guitar riffs are quite
powerful and technical sounding, the vocals are
melodic clear and straight to the point, overall
the song is pretty huge sounding and sets the
pace for the rest of the album.
'Fake As You' starts off with a bit of a jamming
session with the whole band going out making the
best noise out of their instruments, the vocals
soon come in sounding extremely aggressive with
angry screams of "fuck" coming every
now and then, the guitar work is faultless with
such loud sounds coming out of Martin and Mike's
strumming, this is pure powerful guitar riffage
at its best, the guitar solo towards the end of
the song is quite breathtaking, especially when
it leads to a hectic assault of drumming and a
raw scream to finish the song.
If you will find yourself wanting to dance your
pants off to Parties Break Hearts as they have
such a heavy but melodic sound that’s bound
to get the crowd moving at gigs and dance clubs
across the world when their songs are played.
Listen to 'Dance Dance Revolution' and try tell
me afterwards that the song has no effect on you,
if it doesn’t make you want to get up and
dance, bounce of the walls or what ever it is
you do when you hear a killer energetic song as
this is Parties Break Hearts at their catchy best,
the song is a killer and one of the best songs
on the album.
Things take a turn for the chill out lounge for
'Sober' the song sounds like a kind of ballad
that you would expect to hear from bands like
Bon Jovi just in the way that the instruments
are minimal and the soothing vocals are what really
leads the song, it’s a big change from the
songs at the start of the album but get used to
it as this is the start of more mellow moments
to come within later tracks on the album. Don’t
let this put you off though as the mellow tracks
are just as good as the full on noisey tracks
and it proves that the band can cover a wide range
of sounds and styles in their music whilst keeping
everything at such a high quality.
Overall Parties Break Hearts are a really talented
band who really know how to write big songs, the
only downfall is that this is type of music that
gets a good following in the UK underground scene
but gets ignored by pretty much everyone else
as they are too stubborn to admit to hearing a
good underground band when they come and bite
them on the arse, Parties Break Hearts deserve
to go far but I think they will find it tough
getting a look in out of their own country which
is quite sad considering the talent of the band,
let’s hope I am proved wrong.
3.5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Members |
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Martin (Guitars, Vocals)
Leandro (Guitars)
Christian (Drums)
Mike (Bass, Vocals) |
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1. Scrape!
2. Fake As You
3. Dance, Dance Revolution
4. Sober
5. Point Of View
6. Save Yourself Part 1
7. Save Yourself Part 2
8. I'm Dying Here
9. To Feel Again Tonight
10. Reach For Silence
11. Obstacles
12. Is This The Way It's Supposed To Be? |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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