Shiny Toy Guns - Season of Poison
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Artist: Shiny Toy GunsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-11-04
Music Label: Universal Motown
Soundtracks:
- When Did This Storm Begin
- Money For That
- I Owe You A Love Song
- Ghost Town
- It Became A Lie On You
- Ricochet!
- Season Of Love
- Poison
- Blown Away
- Turned To Real Life
- Frozen Oceans
Music reviews of Season of Poison
Music Review: The Devolution of the Pop Rock Band
Rating: 2 Stars
The rock/rap genre has often had an infamous reputation for getting way too emotional. Bands such as Evanescence and Linkin Park sound like cheesy pop bands with teenage guys screaming about their own stupid insecurity.
Shiny Toy Guns shakes off the typical emo-punk moniker with a halfway decent singer and crushing loud guitars. However, if anything, they copy nearly every popular modern rock band to date.
I was in for a roller coaster of an album--Shiny Toy Guns don't exactly know what kind of band they want to be. As a result, they jump around copying everything, from screaming emo punk to nice-guy Death Cab for Cutie-style punk.
In fact, the Shiny Toy Guns copy almost all the current tricks in the pop rock book. However, for me, it sounded a little too out of place to copy all the disco-punk rock tricks, as well as hip-hop/rap rock tricks. I groaned whenever I heard Sisely Treasure switch to her hip-hop antics and sing in the most profound and embarrassing glam girl fashion.
The Shiny Toy Guns aren't terrible. This could have been a much better album than it turned out. The Shiny Toy Guns guitarist and singer do a good job when they are playing edgy, dark punk rock. In the hard rock song "Money For That", in which Dawson sings in his best My Chemical Romance voice and the Toy Guns are smashing when they're rocking loud. Even Dawson puts his own sexual hunger on the line, singing "How could I forget/I'd give you money for that, if there's a way/I could, in your bed." Even though it's a little lame to wish for teenage sex from a prostitute in a song, it makes for some chilling lyrics, as Dawson agonizes about his raging hormones in school.
The Toy Guns even do a cool impersonation of The Cranberries in the song "Turned To Real Life." Sisely Treasure has a great voice which sounds just as eclectic as Cranberries singer Dolores O'Rierdan. "Turned To Real Life" makes for a sunny glam rock song, with echoing guitars and a funky synthesizer in the background. She even gets to sing in the high upper register notes in the last song, "Frozen Oceans."
If they hadn't tried to go overboard with electronic experimentation, I could have liked this band. However, nothing can save the Toy Guns once they dive off the deep end with all the boring and unnaturally sentimental electronics in "Season of Love," and "I Owe You a Love Song."
They also have some really embarrassing songs in their debut. I cried after hearing the supposed single "Ricochet!", in which Treasure sings in her whiniest Gwen Stefani impersonation, "Like a bullet ready to be shot/You're the target, dead on the spot/When I focus, I never miss/It's time for looking." And then Dawson screams "LA-LA-LA-LA!" as if I couldn't stand any more lame teenage angst antics.
By the end, I was getting really, really tired of these electronic new wave copycats. And I really didn't carry about the eight-minute Yanni-style electronic song, "Poison." Come on, the 80s are over. This type of thing would have worked back in Depeche Mode's time, but these days, electronic new wave is way outdated. And I highly doubt they'll go anywhere after that weird church organ solo in the song "Blown Away." Sure, the Arcade Fire pulled off an awesome organ pop rock song, but the Shiny Toy Guns are definitely not the Arcade Fire, and if they were intending to reach the Arcade Fire's level of popularity, they certainly aren't going to get there anytime soon.
All in all, this band is definitely going to need some work. Shiny Toy Guns are more like two different bands. In one spectrum, Sisely Treasure has an excellent singing voice. In the other spectrum, the band's guitarists are great at rocking hard and loud.
Somehow, the band has to mix the two together, which is not an easy task. As a result, their second album, "Season of Poison," is an imbalanced album that music listeners should try to avoid, unless they are hardcore fans.
Since this band is somewhat popular, I pray that their next album will be better than this stale cookie.
Description of Season of Poison
"Season of Poison" is the highly anticipated sophomore album from Shiny Toy Guns. The album is the follow up to their critically acclaimed Grammy nominated debut record We Are Pilots which was released in 2006. The band spent the better half of 2 years on and off the road progressing their dance/rock and electronic roots. Once again producing the album by themselves, founding members Chad Petree (vocals, guitar) and Jeremy Dawson (synthesizer, bass) used 2008 technology to marry dynamic late-70's style synthesizer programming with face-erasing stoner rock; gently spreading this over layer upon layer of ethnic and tribal rhythms. Not to mention their keen pop sense in lyrics and arrangement have collided with the legendary mixing abilities of super-engineer Andy Wallace to create a completely new color in the future-forward musical spectrum. The first single off of Season Of Poison is "Ricochet", a heavy rhythmic guitar laden song already being heard on radio stations across the nation.
Season of Poison marks an evolution for the band not only sonically but in the band dynamics as well. Sisely Treasure from the band Cooler Kids replaced departed vocalist Carah Faye Charnow who left the group this past summer to pursue other interests. Dawson explains, "We moved forward with our initial choice for co-lead singer of the band in 2002, longtime friend Sisely Treasure. At that time she was still locked into her Dreamworks Records deal with her former project Cooler Kids and we were not able to professionally move forward with her. So we have returned to the exact original idea and lineup that Shiny Toy Guns was meant to be." With a new singer who is also now a writing partner to Petree and Dawson, Treasure brings in whole new complimentary perspective to the band. The result is a hard rocking, groove shaking album that will appeal to die hard Shiny Toy Guns fans and new ones alike.
The mercurial foursome (which also includes Mikey Martin on drums), has been described as everything from 'glam-goth-new wave-chic' to 'electronic mash-up with a dance floor destroyer,' thanks to their riveting breakthrough single "Le Disko" which topped the charts in 2006. The playful dance-anthem permeated radio and clubs, was featured in advertisements for Motorola and Apple and was a single of the week on iTunes' playlist. The band also was a "MTVU Freshman Five Artists for Fall 2006" as well as a MTV and MTV2 Discover and Download artist. They appeared on several television shows such as The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel Live. The positive attention and legendary live shows led to an incredible accolade for the band, a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Album this past year.
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