Forever The Sickest Kids
Forever The Sickest Kids
Universal Motown
01 March 2011

by Ali Ryland

“Don’t ever stop it / You got it / Accelerate it I want it!” Not only could the most brainless of pop acts write better drivel than the lyricism on display on Forever The Sickest Kids latest record, but these unfortunate phrases are imbedded amongst the electro-pop monstrosity that is second single ‘Life of the Party’. You can only wonder what was going through the quintet’s heads when they made a track that could force 3OH!3 to spew with its overbearing synth-stink.

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Do you really need this introduction? Do you really need to spend your time reading a preamble here? No, of course not. What you ought to be doing right about now is clicking on that ‘Read More’ button down below, and checking out the second part of our contributors’ Top 10s of 2010.

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Me Vs Hero
Days That Shape Our Lives
Self-Released
01 November 2010

by Ali Ryland

While likely to run and thus congeal into one cheesy Americanised mass, the savoury treat that is Me Vs Hero‘s Days That Shape Our Lives will at least spit and sizzle before settling blandly. It would be hard to pass over the fact that what we have here is a slightly less misogynistic carbon copy of the type of US pop-punk we hate to love….minus anything with an actual punk agenda, and smattered with guyliner and skullcandy headphones.

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