{"id":23058,"date":"2014-04-27T13:40:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-bentley-park-innocence\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:35:10","slug":"album-review-bentley-park-innocence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-bentley-park-innocence\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Bentley Park – Innocence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"So many bands have an obsession with creating a goth-theatrical (gotheatrical?) mood in their music; all make-up\/horror themes or dark flamboyance. Some have used it very effectively in the past, creating an identity for themselves and their fans in turn, but it\u2019s so widespread these days that it has become utterly diluted.<\/p>\n

For Bentley Park<\/strong> it does no favours, and they fail to fashion it to their own image, instead just relying on it to carry them through without any substance to back it up. In fact, pretty much everything about this band is stuck together and borrowed from elsewhere. Originality isn\u2019t everything, but Bentley Park<\/strong> chose all the worst examples of alternative music to create a monster that should never have been brought to life.<\/p>\n

\u2018Blood Ties\u2019<\/em> sounds like Panic At The Disco combined with awful death metal grunts that just smack of a painful attempt to appeal to metal kids. They don\u2019t serve any purpose in the song whatsoever and are delivered in such a ham-fisted way that it makes you blush for the band.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018No Hope For The Hopeless\u2019<\/em> is pretty much standard fair new-wave emo-pop. It\u2019s fairly inoffensive, if you can manage to ignore the sheer outright offensiveness of the lyric “I try to get it back and make amends but I’d rather just sit and watch Scrubs and Friends”<\/em>. Honestly, can you imagine singing that out loud at a concert?\u00a0 It\u2019s so banal it\u2019s excruciating and certainly justifies the song title.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dear Luscious 1\u2019 <\/em>makes matters worse with the line \u201cIt\u2019s such a pity but this girl is a fitty\u201d <\/em>(barf), before the EP hits new heights of awfulness with \u2018Sly_ther\u2019<\/em>. More death grunts, a line borrowed from Britney Spears and a general splicing of all of modern rock music\u2019s most unwanted clich\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

Bentley Park<\/em><\/strong>, who hail from York, describe themselves without blinking as post-hardcore, an attempted association which is more than a little discourteous to the genre, regardless of what that label may have come to mean these days when ascribed to undeserving bands \u00a0like Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens.<\/p>\n

Nothing they have created on this release seems genuine, everything feels like part of a scheme with which to increase the buy-in of the target audience. \u2018All The Fists in the World Won\u2019t Save You Now\u2019 <\/em>morphs from pop-punk to bratty metal half way through, but is desperate and forced, and when they attempt to sound all foreboding and scary in the closing track with the line \u201cpray for repentance, pray for us all\u201d,<\/em> it makes you sigh and feel glad the experience is nearly over.<\/p>\n

I wish I could come up with a redeeming factor so this review didn\u2019t come across like a complete trashing of Bentley Park<\/strong>…but I couldn\u2019t, and so unfortunately that\u2019s pretty much what this is. It\u2019s by some way the worst record I\u2019ve listened to so far this year. Steer well clear.<\/p>\n

1\/5<\/p>\n

‘Innocence’<\/em> by Bentley Park<\/strong> is out now.<\/p>\n

Bentley Park<\/strong> links: Tumblr<\/a>|Twitter<\/a>|Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Alex Phelan (@listen_to_alex<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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