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Published on February 24th 2006
Action Action provided a fairly decent new wave / dance rock combination on their debut, Don't Cut Your Fabric to This Year's Fashion. While their followup here, An Army of Shapes Between Wars, is certainly more ambitious and carefully crafted, what it results in is an awfully boring and long affair with bordering-on-annoying amounts of keyboard and very few hooks.
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Yeah, parts of this album are a little bit too overbearing and played out, but there are a number of enjoyable moments throughout. It's something you can't just listen too on it's own, but an album that you listen to while doing something. I really like this album. It's a little different then everything else. Joy Division and New Order MOST CERTAINLY were good. Ther're goddamn excellent excellent bands. That said, lame bands like this sound nothng like them and shouldn't be lumped together. I'm REALLY not qualified to comment on this, but, FUCK!!!! Why does Victory feel the need to put out bands that aren't even remotely hardcore? Is it greed? This feels overly STUDIO. The songs lack substance and it feels thrown together. Yuck. the reunion show was a thousand times better than this band based on their live show alone. Has anyone heard The Autumn Offering cd yet...the song "Revelation" is pretty good ...just think we should get a review soon..instead of this boring shit this cd and the title just sounds like they go to far out of thier way to try to be diffrent and wierd. its like all these new bands are having a contest to see who can make the most obscure titles kind of a drag shitty are work wtf the first album was infinitely better and the standouts brian notes above are rather unfortunate. There's only two things I don't like about Action Action... Brian... do the kids really want to read a review of this? Thanks for the disclaimer Will, I thought you were talking about the power violence Killers. I wanted to like this album. I REALLY enjoyed their debut. I only like 3 or 4 songs on this one though. It just goes nowhere. I liked the reunion show, they had a few catchy pop gems. The name "Action, Action" is supposed to be ironic, right? I 2nd the fact that it's possibly the worst cover art evar. Is it possible for this site to create a negative star system just especially for releases from Victory Records? score is for victory records I still listen to the Killers. And the Faint. Any bets on what style these guys are going to trendwhore themselves out to next? the reunion show was more entertaining I can't help but laugh viciously at the agony these posers must be going through as their trend is dying before their very eyes. I mean, just a year and a half ago, all you needed was the right stylist, some keyboards, and a shitty singer, and you could cash in on the much-unneeded dance-pop revival. This was the Reunion Show right? band was actually entertaining live, but boring as fuck on record |
