Saves The Day
My brother got the new Saves The Day album, In Reverie on Tuesday. So I took his iPod and uploaded the songs to mine. *Shhh!!* As soon as I press play, the first thing that comes to my mind was, “This sounds like Weezer”. It’s slower and more melodic and has the up and down melodies that Weezer made famous. Even though Weezer is a great band in their own right, for Saves The Day to produce a similar sound would seem like a good idea, right? You’d think that. But for someone who knows them for Through Being Cool and Stay What You Are, this new album might be too much of a change in their sound than one can handle.
I think that it is good for bands and music acts in general to change their sound as they mature. No one wants to hear the same melodies with different lyrics slapped on. (Can anyone say Rufio?) With another album under their belts, STD has matured and this is what they now sound like. Of course, with their involvement with a major label, we’ll be seeing them all over MTV and TRL and all the little kids will eat it up since it’s what Carson Daly says they should eat. Just ask those kids what their favorite song from Through Being Cool or Can’t Slow Down was and they probably couldn’t give you an answer. Nevertheless, this is what the band wanted since they signed with Dreamworks in the first place. They deserve all the fame they get.
When Stay What You Are came out, people didn’t like it since it didn’t sound like their previous album. And this is exactly what I’m saying with this album. I’m not saying the whole album sucks and I will hate it forever. I’ll just have to wait and see if this one grows on me.
: Tommorrow Too Late by Saves The Day