{"id":24751,"date":"2014-02-11T16:20:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T16:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-abandon-all-ships-malocchio\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:33:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:33:28","slug":"album-review-abandon-all-ships-malocchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-abandon-all-ships-malocchio\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Abandon All Ships – Malocchio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"On the whole, as a nation, Canada has been rather good at producing top-notch, globe conquering rock bands. Unfortunately, Toronto\u2019s Abandon All Ships<\/strong> appear to be doing their level best to piss thoroughly all over that reputation.<\/p>\n

On paper the band, who have returned with third album \u2018Malocchio\u2019<\/em>, should be (and in some cases probably are) a scenester\u2019s wet dream, combining Hardcore with Dub-step and European trance. In practice the blend doesn\u2019t work in the slightest, not helped by the band taking the most clich\u00e9d and mediocre aspect of each sound. Bands regularly complain about writers trying to pigeonhole their sound, so in the finest traditions of this \u2018Mediocore\u2019 anyone?<\/p>\n

The overall sound is cluttered, confused and unpleasantly bewildering on the senses. It feels like being locked in a \u2018cool\u2019 club night with DJ\u2019s at opposite ends of the room blasting out low-grade slices of Hardcore and Dub-step at the same time while everyone else flexes their muscles in their Honour Over Glory Tees and necks Jagerbombs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Occasionally a half decent chorus lurches haphazardly out of the stumbling, plodding verses but so fleeting is the listening pleasure, that you\u2019re soon back to wanting to lob the music playing device in question squarely out of the window.<\/p>\n

Lyrically, Abandon All Ships<\/strong> are pretty unimaginative and about as subtle and poetic as a brick, so it\u2019s not even possible to claw \u2018Malocchio\u2019<\/em> back some points on that front.<\/p>\n

If you prefer style over substance, posturing over creativity or are enough of a cretin to have addled your brain with substances really meant for horses or pot plants, you might like this. Anyone else turn and run, fast and far, far, away from this musical abomination.<\/p>\n

1\/5<\/p>\n

‘Malocchio’<\/em> by Abandon All Ships<\/strong> is out now on Rise Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Abandon All Ships<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Dane Wright (@MrDaneWright<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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