{"id":26212,"date":"2013-10-30T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-i-am-king-one-hundred\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:29:23","slug":"album-review-i-am-king-one-hundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-i-am-king-one-hundred\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: I Am King – One Hundred"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"‘One Hundred’<\/em> is the Pennsylvania Six-piece\u2019s debut effort for Velocity<\/strong>\/Rise Records<\/strong>. It\u2019s definitely a statement; their hardcore vocals and riffs mixed with poppy choruses and programming fleshing out an album filled with angsty songs about relationships, growing up and a human drive to do something meaningful in life. The production is polished up and sounds meaty on first listen, but does it actually have any bite?<\/p>\n

The vocals range from an almost black metal rasping to sweetly sung via gang vox shouting and almost choral harmonies. ‘Thrive’<\/em> is a mostly sung affair about finding something to keep you going which wouldn\u2019t feel entirely out of place on a Hoobastank record. In similarly themed ‘Ambition and Contrast’,<\/em> it falls somewhere between Rise against, some NYC hardcore and Cradle of Filth at points in a storm of swirling guitar licks and double bass drum. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

‘Omega’<\/em> has an air of the ‘Decemberunderground’<\/em> era programming that AFI started when the bridge and chorus come in. The Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde approach to loud\/quiet\/loud dynamic is well pronounced here, and actually works pretty well, but in other places it occasionally comes over a little flat. ‘Fallen’<\/em> begins promisingly with the chorus hook pulling you in through the line “\u2026when you told me the truth, baby you killed me”,<\/em> it\u2019s overdramatic delivery followed up with at suckerpunch of driving guitars brings togther a lot of momentum, which is then lost as it stalls into the verse somewhat. The choruses pick it up, but it feels a little like it\u2019s slumped between those props. The breakdown in the middle feels a bit like it should rejuvenate, with it dropping into electronic effects and vocals but when the chorus kicks back in, it seems a bit wasted.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some nice guitar work amongst all the heavy driving chords that are the power behind a lot of the record. The arpeggios throughout ‘Birth By Sleep’<\/em> being a nice contrast to the chugging guitars in other places, and the short guitar solo gives it a really different feel to the rest of the album. there\u2019s also some nice picked bits in \u2018Julia\u2019<\/em> behind the vocals in the chorus.<\/p>\n

This does have some moments, with the song of remorse for a failed relationship ‘Julia’<\/em> and it\u2019s very atypical ballad sound, upbeat but still somewhat melancholy being a highlight. But there are a lot of ideas crammed in which don\u2019t neccessarily work as well as they could, with things feeling a little flat from time to time. There\u2019s ambition and a fair bit of experimentation, more so than on the self released ‘I Am King EP’<\/em> from last year, which shows promise. It\u2019s a case of trying to do a bit too much with each track though, and the experimentation doesn\u2019t pay off everywhere.<\/p>\n

3\/5<\/p>\n

‘OneHundred’<\/em> by I Am King<\/strong> is available now on Velocity<\/strong>\/Rise Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I Am King<\/strong> links: Facebook<\/a>| Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Heather Robertson (@thecuriosity<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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