Him - Screamworks: Love in Theory & Practice
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Artist: HimEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-02-09
Music Label: Sire / Wea
Product features:
- HIM SCREAMWORKS: LOVE IN THEORY
- In Venere Veritas
- Scared To Death
- Heartkiller
- Dying Song
- Disarm Me [With Your Loneliness]
- Love, The Hardest Way
- Katherine Wheel
- In The Arms Of Rain
- Ode To Solitude
- Shatter Me With Hope
- Acoustic Funeral (For Love In Limbo)
- Like St. Valentine
- The Foreboding Sense Of Impending Happiness
Music reviews of Screamworks: Love in Theory & Practice
Music Review: This CD is mind numbingly bland and uninteresting; and just because you wear a blouse doesn't mean you're dark and mysterious.
Rating: 1 Stars
I will be the first to admit that while effeminate rockers HIM have never really been at the top of my must hear list, all the hubbub about their new album that has been circulating through my friends circle has struck my curiosities. Simply put, this frolicking, Finnish five piece has spent the greater part of the last decade releasing albums, and I have yet to be a fan of one song they've produced, which begs the question: why am I wasting my time and energy on their most current release, Screamworks? Well, I can't really answer that, except to say that I keep hearing people say it's different and better than the rest of their nonsensical musical disasterpieces. Since I have enjoyed their previous albums about as much as a root canal, for the sake of being fair, I am going into Screamworks open minded and free of personal discrimination.
The problem I have with HIM (outside of their lack of fashion sense), is that their music, no matter how current, always comes across as dated. Overly simple, dated, unintelligent music that so many find brilliant, which seems to speak so poorly of our society. The day HIM's music is considered brilliant and edgy is the day I wear a tutu and dance around singing Beyonce's "Single Ladies" with my cat.
In 2005, I was enjoying a concert by a then favorite band of mine, Finch (no comment), and I was subjected to my first HIM experience. This was during their single "Wings Of a Butterfly," which was not so terrible...that is, until they started playing it four hundred times a day and you realized that, in fact, it was a terrible song. Since then, I have lacked any desire to indulge this insane, talentless, freak show with even a fraction of my attention; until now that is, because I review music so it's my job to listen. You might say that discredits my opinion because to truly appreciate HIM you must know their history and their vision. Not true, you don't have to know a band's vision to know if their music is terrible.
This CD is mind numbingly bland and uninteresting; and just because you wear a blouse doesn't mean you're dark and mysterious. It means you shop in the women's department, so unless your name was formally Prince, take a hint.
From the opening track of Screamworks, you feel like you are being mind molested by an out-of-date, coo-coo Finnish fairy in a blouse. Their wannabe Hot Topic, early decade goth style of music makes the sound of sick cats worthy of a Grammy. I don't mean to be over dramatic, but it's important that as many of our readers possible avoid this album.
Their synth rock, gothic ballads are predictable and overrated. Ville Valo's vocals at times remind me of Davey Havoc (AFI) minus the talent, and his lyrics are even worse than his man-scara and wardrobe selection. Their single off of this release is a song called "Heartkiller," and surprise, surprise, it sounds like every other song on the album. Cheesier than a homeless man's grundle and much more gut wrenching. There's a track called "Acoustic Funeral," and my God, I'd rather sit through a real funeral than listen to this song again.
I feel like this album was exactly what I expected it to be and nothing more. HIM has not changed -- they are writing the same music just changing the names of the songs. I'm sure there will be thousands who disagree with my words, but those of us who require a little more depth to our musical experiences will appreciate my criticisms. If you think I'm over exaggerating, try me. Listen to a few songs, but don't say I didn't warn you. This is a must miss record; I lost the last 45 minutes of my life, so don't make the same mistake. I'm holding an acoustic funeral for all of the brain cells they killed.
OUR RATING
(1.5/5)
Description of Screamworks: Love in Theory & Practice
SCREAMWORKS: LOVE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE is HIM's seventh studio album and the follow-up to 2007's Venus Doom, which debuted at No. 12 in the U.S.After conquering the rest of the world with chart-topping albums and sold-out tours, Finland's HIM won over the States with its 2005 U.S. debut, the Top 20 Dark Light. In 2007, Venus Doom elevated the band's summer-of-love-gone-goth to even harder and heavier heights.
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