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Okay, first things first, the four piece Berkshire
rockers Dissolved In look like your typical emo
scene band posing on the front cover of their debut
EP 'Proudly Dressed' wearing red shirts, black tie
and black trousers apart from the singer who is
dressed in red trousers, a black shirt and tie with
a white suit jacket, each band member has long floppy
hair that just about misses covering their eyes.
These guys really do look like your average scene
band and if you check out any of the pictures on
their myspace you will believe it even more.
Luckily for Dissolved In, their image isn't the
best thing about the band, they actually have
some half decent songs to back everything up,
their debut EP is 5 tracks long and it's an EP
that is quite easy to get into, everything sounds
like a mixture of Kids In Glass Houses, Blink
182 and You Me At Six.
The EP starts off with 'Mapped Roads' which starts
off with a spoken introduction with some men and
kids saying repetatively saying "All I want
in life is to be happy', sounding like a spoken
word introduction of the Korn track, 'Dead'. The
song then suddenly branches off into its own direction
with a set of pretty constant drum rolls that
build up with time and some shit hot guitar riffage
which oddly reminds me of ' Thriller' the opening
track from the last Fall Out Boy album, but as
soon as Daniel Wright's vocals come in, any thought
of Korn and Fall Out Boy is washed away and instead
there becomes a clear Kids In Glass Houses comparision
with the way that the extremely catchy poppy chorus
is delivered.
'Egocentric' starts off with an electronic introduction,
electronics seem to be the cool thing these days,
if you don't include it in your music then it
seems like you are missing out as most bands seem
to include some kind of electronics within their
music now. The electronics do make an interesting
addition to the song and helps add to the catchy
nature of the song, once again Daniel Wright's
vocals are delivered in such a stand out, fast
catchy way. The guitar riffs are pretty damn good
as well and the actual melody of the song is pretty
spot on.
'Peter Pan Syndrome' is a great name for a song
and the song itself is a fast and bouncy catchy
anthem, no matter how much you want to dislike
these guys for being another one of those scene
bands who spend too much time on their image,
songs like this make that even harder to do, seriously
try and tell me that this song is crap and so
was the two songs previously? You could truly
only say that if you really didn't know what talented
music is even if it came along and bit you on
the arse.
The EP finishes with 'Avoiding Atrophy', the
song is is quite a heavy sing along tune, the
guitar riffs come in thick and fast, the drumming
is pretty big and constant sounding like a big
marching band and the vocals are once again at
their catchiest peak during the song, the outro
to the song sounds very much like the extremely
sing along parts of Blink 182's 'Feeling This',
just listen from 3 minutes 47 seconds onwards.
Dissolved In are the kind of band that you make
your opinion up just by looking at their image,
you start to think that they are going to be another
one of those average scene bands that can barely
put together a half decent song, you start to
listen to their EP with not much faith that it's
going to be good and then when you are about halfway
through the EP you start to think, well this isn't
bad, by the time the 20 minutes is up and the
EP finishes you are converted and become fully
convinced that Dissolved In are actually decent
muscians which is proof that you should never
judge a band before listening to their music.
4/5
Review by Trigger
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Dan (Vocals, Guitar)
Gary (Guitar, Vocals)
Jamie (Bass, Vocals)
Stu (Drums) |
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1. Mapped Roads
2. Egocentric
3. Peter Pan Syndrome
4. First impressions
5. Avoiding atrophy |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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