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Liars Academy:
Demons
The Liars Academys new album, Demons, sounds like a cathartic experience for a band that went through some emotional and creative struggles from 2002 to 2003. The twelve songs on Demons sound like a diary that the listener isnt supposed to hear. The record contains enough emotion to make my stereo system shed a tear. This record sounds like a lonely Saturday night with a bottle of cheap liquor and a half pack of cigarettes. There are enough alcohol references on this album to make me believe that a lot of these songs were written under such circumstances: Im burning up like a cigarette/fading away with a bottle of whiskey/I throw in some pills/just to round things out. Yikes... Unfortunately, the songs on this album evoke much more than a morose Saturday night. I cant help it, but for me, every song sounds like a perfect theme song to an early 90s drama about a lonely teenager growing up in a suburban hellhole. Her parents are in the middle of a divorce, her best friend just moved, and the boy that she has a crush on in third period History class wont give her the time of day. The only thing that gets our young heroine through the day is.......hmmm, she has begun to realize she has super powers? Yeah, that sounds far fetched enough for a television show. The point is that the songs on this album sound like the band was trying as hard as they could to be emotional. It doesnt sound like the songs were coming from emotion, rather it sounds like the songs are looking for it. Theyre contrived, predictable, and lacking the lyrical depth for the listener even to want to take them seriously. The sounds and production are outdated, and the clichs run wild. By the end of Ghost of Baltimore, in which lead singer Ryan Shelkett repeatedly tells us that I am going to change, we hope that he does into a songwriter that doesnt rely on 13 year-old emotion to write his songs.
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