Hidden in Plain View - Life in Dreaming
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Artist: Hidden in Plain ViewEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2005-02-22
Music Label: Drive Thru
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Bleed For You - Hidden In Plain View
- Ashes Ashes - Hidden In Plain View
- A Minor Detail - Hidden In Plain View
- The Point - Hidden In Plain View
- Twenty Below - Hidden In Plain View
- Garden Statement - Hidden In Plain View
- The Innocent Ones - Hidden In Plain View
- American Classic - Hidden In Plain View
- In Memory - Hidden In Plain View
- Top 5 Addictions - Hidden In Plain View
- Halcyon Daze - Hidden In Plain View
- Bleed For You - Hidden In Plain View
- Sydney - Halifax
- Better Love - Steel Train
- Decoration - The Early November
- Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn - Hellogoodbye
- D2 - Allister
- Cross My Heart - Home Grown
- The Best Happiness Money Can Buy - I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business
- Eastern Homes And Western Hearts - Day At The Fair
- Tonight (The Process) - Self Against City
- The Doctor - Socratic
- Unnoticeable - An Angle
- Symphony (Six The Hard Way) - I Am The Avalanche
- Exit Emergency - Houston Calls
- A Over B Squared - Morning Call
- Talk Radio - The Track Record
- Attention - Adelphi
- Jamie - Jenoah
Music reviews of Life in Dreaming
Music Review: Missed Potential
Rating: 4 Stars
I've been a huge fan of Drive Thru records for a number a long time, so I've known of Hidden In Plain View for quite some time. I saw them four years ago with New Found Glory and thought they were on the cusp of greatness, espicially with the way they left everything on the stage and played for nearly two hours. When I first purchased "Life In Dreaming" I was expecting an underground hit, something similar to My Chemical Romance's "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" that would eventually find its way into mainstream music, however that never happened.
After the first couple times listening to the CD, I kept wanting more but had no idea why. There wasn't a single track that jumped out to me as unbelievable, yet I couldn't take it out of my CD player either. Eventually I started singing some of the songs in my head, a dead giveaway that a CD has begun to wear on you, and I sit here today still able to say that the CD is in constant rotation in my car a year later.
Don't get me wrong, this CD did not reach the potential that I thought it could, but there are signs that the band is close to making something of themselves. Anyone claiming they are similar to such acts as "Creed" or "Limp Bizkit" didn't listen to the CD and is just going on what others told them for the sound, instruments, producing, and lyrics have no similarities to either ninties rock acts. There are 11 tracks on the CD, 7 of which I will always listen to, 4 of which are "EXCELLENT" songs.
Track 1, "Bleed For You" should have been the first single for the band. It's fast paced, utilizes the strengths of the band which are hard guitars, one singer belting out harmonic pleads while the other screams over top. Plain and simple, an excellent track and worth downloading if not interested in the CD as a whole. Track 3, "A Minor Detail" might seem ordinary on the CD, but the band plays remarkebly well live, which is why I will give it a better grade then most. Again, fast paced with both singers used frequently. The best track on the CD, and actually one of the best rock tracks I have heard in quite some time, is track 5 "Twenty Below". This is really the first track where the band begins to let some of their emotions out, but what makes it special is the ability for the band to almost change sounds entirely on three different occasions on the track. The song starts slow, picks up in the middle, and then dies down completely to a heart wrenching end. Its a roller coaster of a song that anyone that has lost a loved one would not only understand, but appreciate. To me, the best of the track is the very end, after the belting vocals of "Feel like twenty below?" to go back to an acoustic set for the final "Just wait and you'll see you're everything I want...". It is an absolute perfect ending to a great track. The final song, "Halcyon Daze" is one of the weaker songs to most critics because of its slow pace and blandness. I won't dispute either case as there is nothing extraordinary at first listen. What one needs to do is listen to the words though and understand that its a story, not just a filler song. Put yourself in place of the Rob singing the song and I promise you'll appreciate the song.
I wish I could give this CD 5 stars, but even though some of the tracks are excellent, having four songs that I will always skip doesn't allow me to give the CD a perfect grade. The promise is still their for greatness, it just hasn't been reached yet.
Description of Life in Dreaming
There are a thousand ways for the world to cut you up and cut you off. On their Drive-Thru Records debut full-length CD Life in Dreaming, Hidden in Plain View explores a few of them. A brutal rape in a back alley. A car wreck on the turnpike. Standing alone on a high rooftop and contemplating the fast way down. Unafraid to confront such dark impulses, the hard-rocking New Jersey quintet ultimately makes an eloquent hard-rocking case for the human spirit.Produced by Jim Wirt (Incubus, Something Corporate) and mixed by Josh Wilbur, Life In Dreaming rips the head off of most rock & roll conventions. A good example is "Bleed For You," a searing account of a date rape. Sings lead vocalist Joe Reo: "The cold concrete cuts against her back/and her spirit spills with blood onto the pavement/hands tied so tight behind her neck/and a silence falls and everything changes." Notes lead guitarist/lyricist Rob Freeman, "Two friends of mine were rape victims, and seeing how much pain they were in I wanted to relieve them. It's one of the rawest things I ever wrote and when I played it for one of them, she had tears in her eyes, and she said 'You nailed it.'""Ashes, Ashes" is a crushing rocker that shines light on what the band calls moral suicide. "It's about being true to yourself," says Rob, "and not taking things for granted." The neo-symphonic seven-minute-long "Garden Statement" traces the anguished reflections of a soul on fire. "They broke you down and now you're broken/And it's sadder than the saddest movie/I ever saw but without the beauty/So I stopped watching I stopped caring," sings Joe Reo.Other songs, like "Twenty Below" and "A Minor Detail," keep up the pressure. Says Joe of the band's songwriting process, "When we get together, we sit in a circle with our amps plugged in and we share ideas. If we like an idea we jam on it." Adds Rob: "We write the songs together. The best stuff always comes from what you're feeling."The track "In Memory" carries that notion further. "Rob's grandfather had passed away," says Joe, "and a friend of mine was dying from cancer. So we were looking at it from the same point of view, which gave the song more emotion." Songs like "Halcyon Daze," with its string flourishes, show a more intimate side, while "Top 5 Addictions" and "American Classic" showcase HIPV's ability to blend power with melody. Says Rob, "'American Classic' is about growing up and the friends you grow apart from. You go to college, life takes over. Things aren't as sincere as when you're young."Alternative Rock CDs
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