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If you happen to be opposed to a little dance mixed into your rock you’d better grow some patience. Can’t say it’s a new thing however, there are some quite popular groups now pairing their rock or emo sound with a disco back beat. Hearts of Saints is right there with them. This scruffy faced emo-hair cut quartet is releasing their debut album with Revolution Art. It’s not hard to imagine HoS fitting perfectly on a tour with some of the titans of CCM.
Whether the last statement fosters curiosity or fear should reveal to you your feelings about this work. Even if the rest of CCM sends you running to the nearest keyboard to blog your feelings about the industry, this release is a collection of quality tunes. With that said I offer this caveat.
Something here troubles me; if you weren’t careful you could listen to this album in its completion and not remember a thing. Applying a critical ear I can say there is one real standout. This track is Beautiful Mystery. Choked full of hooks it has a chorus that exemplifies what others in the genre’ do right. What’s unfortunate is that it seems if HoS put some more time and effort into song construction than into the production the listener would have a little something more to hold on to.
Lyrically nice, musically adequate, and catchy enough; however, memorable—this work is not. There is little doubt in this critic’s mind that the industry will latch on to HoS and take them for a ride. To find the missing piece, Hearts of Saints need to become better musical risk takers. Lose the safe formulas that made other groups successful and force us to remember you.