Labels: Rise
Review by: Andy Malcolm
Good lord. This is be some mundane music, folks. Two bands try their best to emulate popular ’emo’ sounds of the day, and that’s exactly what they come over as. One Last Thing patently love early Sunny Day Real Estate, the pacy twinkle/bass intro on “Falling Down” is SDRE to the max. Though musically they take a more straightforward rock direction like the meaningless Paris Texas – chunky guitars, chuggy riffs and irritating overly-sung vocals. They remind me I guess of the first Spy vs Spy EP (it’s the strained backing vocals and vague mathy quirkiness of the rhythms) and you have what this band are doing. No nonsense, common or garden emo-rock with occasional quirky tendencies. I thought this band was mediocre, but I didn’t think they were bad “” I would say it was actually quite listenable, and that it didn’t make me want to start a fight. On the other hand, Crosstide make me want to start World Wars. I feel sorry of OLT that they have to share this CD with such a lacklustre bed fellow. This band to me is the very definition of pointlessness. Listener, sit there whilst we re-create some of Jimmy Eat World’s more bland moments (and heck, there are plenty of them), whilst getting our vocalist to pretend he is Thom Yorke every now and again, because boy are Radiohead hip these days. Paint by numbers pop music with no reedeming value to my ears. Hell, maybe you like 8th rate JEW knockoffs, if that’s the case then you will have multitudinous orgasms whilst you have Crosstide on the stereo my peculiar friend who masturbates frenetically to uninvigorating emo-pop! And on that note, I look forward to not hearing this band ever again.