Cd Reviews

Illawarra Mercury

Thursday October 16, 2008

with GLEN HUMPHRIES

Severed Ties

The Amity Affliction

When you listen to a band described as hardcore you don't expect to hear keyboards. Yet, poking its head in-between the loud basslines, throat-burning shouty vocals and heavy guitars is a light tinkly-tinkly keyboard that sounds like it came from the 1980s. I harp on it because it's so totally distracting every time it appears. Keyboards aside, the album is loud, chunky and boasts a cinematic feel courtesy of some (made-up?) movie dialogue and the slasher flick pictures in the CD booklet.

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