EP Review
Dissolved In - Proudly DressedDissolved In - Proudly Dressed

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
 Band Members

Dan (Vocals, Guitar)
Gary (Guitar, Vocals)
Jamie (Bass, Vocals)
Stu (Drums)
 Track Listing
1. Mapped Roads
2. Egocentric
3. Peter Pan Syndrome
4. First impressions
5. Avoiding atrophy
 Band Related Links
Dissolved In Myspace
 Review Score Code
- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
- What Was That?