Sunday, April 29, 2012

The Treelines - EP & Dream House b/w Pact





Why do these people (read: Ryan Becker, Tony Ferraro and Grady Sandlin) keep playing in bands together? This EP is just proof that they have gotten too comfortable together (read: lazy). It's so simple, sweet and straightforward that it crosses right over into boring. The music sounds like filler used to kill time while people tune on-stage. And nothing against vocalist Amanda Newton (read: I hate you), but couldn't they have at least tried to find someone that wasn't just already sitting around with them. Maybe someone with a bit more punch to lively things up. I know that she wrote the lyrics, but she could have handed them over to New Science Projects' Dale Jones. I know the guys have played with him before. Not that it would have made the songs any better, but it might have at least been more interesting. Maybe they'll do better next time.









Nope, they didn't. If your own songs are boring, what should you do? Release a cover from a band that sounds painfully similar to you and back it with an audio experiment that sounds like a four year old made it on their Speak & Spell? No. That's the opposite of what you should do. The silver lining in this waste of plastic is that it seems Amanda has run out of things to say and this will be the last we hear from them. M̶a̶y̶b̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶'̶l̶l̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶n̶e̶x̶t̶ ̶t̶i̶m̶e̶.̶ Maybe they'll kill themselves.


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