Labels: self released
Review by: David Giles
From the band: “We play “post-melodic” hardcore with huge influence from old school screamo and various emotive hardcore bands. All of our songs try to capture the opposing forces we’re all pulled towards everyday. Every song is about the struggle to find moderation in a world of extremes, the gray between the black and white. We’re on a search for the ever elusive balance between chaos and order, love and lust, personal responsibility and societal duty, remembering and forgetting, past and future, fate and free will. We’ll probably never capture all of this in our music, but this is our fight and we won’t quit without trying.”
Featherweight is obviously a band who has mastered the major-label-promo-sheet-rhetoric that would nab them all crucial jobs at NME or Vice magazine. I heard this before I put it on and I was positive I wouldn’t like the band. Their lyrics are peppered with horrendous clichés too. In the first track alone there is reference to fading to darkness, autumn turning to winter, seeing someone one last time, a girl smoking, flesh, crying, a lingering spirit. Oh man. This is new music.
After all that, I was pretty surprised by this. Minus a few horrendously boring build ups and garbage lyrics, some of this is alright. A couple of times you can see that these guys really do listen to some screamo and emo. It kills me that a band able to do that is drowning themselves in the same pretence and filler bullshit that the MTV bullshit bands they definitely don’t want to be compared to do, instead of trying to get everything on the same page. I hope these guys get it together so that they might actually be worth listening to.