{"id":26004,"date":"2013-11-15T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-high-hopes-self-revival\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:29:31","slug":"album-review-high-hopes-self-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-high-hopes-self-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: High Hopes &#8211; Self Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/tumblr_inline_mw0sbikOpl1qheirv.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">This album is so painfully dull it took me three attempts to listen to it the whole way through without losing concentration. I\u2019d rather watch Dynasty for 12 hours than listen to this again, in fact I paused it at one point to hoover instead. It\u2019s bland as they come.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to make a brilliant album and easier to make a terrible one, but <em>\u2018Self Revival\u2019<\/em> lands squarely in the land of blah \u2013 which is some feat. <strong>High Hopes\u2019 <\/strong><em>\u2018Self Revival\u2019<\/em> isn\u2019t bad, it\u2019s just soul crushingly boring. Consisting of ten tracks of dull screamy-metal, it also has an unoriginal piano interlude in the middle as a bridge (or padding) between the two parts, it\u2019s tediously predictable. There\u2019s no wow factor, nothing to make you want to listen again.<\/p>\n<p>Musically <strong>High Hopes<\/strong> sound like Your Demise did before they decided they wanted to be a pop-punk band and then split up. <strong>High Hopes<\/strong> label themselves \u2018melodic metalcore\u2019 but there\u2019s nothing melodic about this dirge. Despite insisting that <em>\u2018Self Revival\u2019<\/em> claims to be &lsquo;rammed with subject matter that will resonate with many\u2019, however this album is so unbearably tedious I couldn\u2019t possibly say what was meant to resonate.<br \/><!-- more --><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are no standout moments and no redeeming lyrics, just endless screaming and riffing with a few tired gang vocals and breakdowns in an attempt to break the monotony. There\u2019s also a chanting bit at the end of <em>\u2018The Balance\u2019<\/em> where singer Nick Brooks sounds like a cat coughing up a hairball, which is probably the most interesting part of the whole album.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that I struggled to scrape together 300 words about <em>\u2018Self Revival\u2019<\/em> says it all, a nothing album of which there\u2019s little point in wasting time listening to. I\u2019d rather have a nap.<\/p>\n<p>1\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201dSelf Revival\u2019 by <\/em><strong>High Hopes\u00a0<\/strong>is out 11<sup>th<\/sup> November via\u00a0<strong>This is Core Records<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>High Hopes<\/strong> links:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ihavehighhopesofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ihave_highhopes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ihavehighhopesuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Jay Sullivan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This album is so painfully dull it took me three attempts to listen to it the whole way through without losing concentration. I\u2019d rather watch Dynasty for 12 hours than listen to this again, in fact I paused it at one point to hoover instead. It\u2019s bland as they come. 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