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Something For Someone
- Stay, It's Not Worth Moving
(Lockjaw)
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| Unless I’ve been mixing with the wrong circles, it’s all been quiet on the UK post-hardcore front in recent times. Releases by once-lauded post-hardcore 'titans' such as Hell Is For Heroes and Hundred Reasons have slipped by under the mainstream radar, something which would have been unthinkable just five or six years ago. |
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Apparently though, post-hardcore isn’t quite floating face down in rock’s swimming pool just yet, because here come Cheltenham’s Next Big Thing (and I’ll give a special prize to anyone who can suggest candidates for the town’s Last Big Thing...) - Something For Someone with the mini-album Stay, It’s Not Worth Moving.
To denounce the band for using the clichéd soft verse followed by shouty, distortion-laden chorus (and, wait for it, maybe a shouty-over-clean-guitar bridge) would be hypocritical coming from myself, someone who likes good examples of this genre as much as anyone. But where Something For Someone flounder is with their total lack of originality.
Disregarding CD-opener ‘Turrets’, which is repetitive on the verge of ridiculous, there doesn’t seem to be a novel idea over the course of the six tracks. Clutching at straws proffered by the usual suspects, Hundred Reasons, Hell Is For Heroes, all the way through to Thursday, it’s all been sadly heard before. More than once.
I’m not saying that Stay, It’s Not Worth Moving is terrible. It’s not. However, it is little more than a retrospective of a genre covering the last seven or so years, merely (and sadly) a reconstruction of used material, re-presented under the façade of something new. |
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