Album Reviews

When Pierce The Veil dropped their debut “A Flair For The Dramatic”, all I could think about was that the album title was quite the understatement. These guys are back with a new album called “Selfish Machines” and unfortunately they still display that same flair for the dramatic. And the bombastic. And the over the top. And the auto-tuned.

While wrestling my way through the dozen tracks on this album, I can’t help but feel that Pierce The Veil are pretty much everything that’s wrong with music today. Okay, so they’re not the only one around out there with this kinda sound… then again, that’s also part of the problem isn’t it? How many similar sounding bands are out there? They all dress like they’re fifteen years old and colorblind and like to sport five haircuts at the same time. They want to rock out on one hand but use girly voices to do so and are so over the top that even a gay ballet dancer would frown at the display of so much pathos. So yeah, I don’t really care for this album.