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Clearview Kills

Wrap This Around Your Neck [reissue]
2006
Orange Peal

Clearview Kills - Wrap This Around Your Neck [reissue] (Cover Artwork)


Review by: Brian
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Published on April 14th 2006

Awesome, I always wanted the latest 2nd-rate Thursday clone to incorporate metalcore influences!

Wait, what's that you say, Clearview Kills? You rip off 2 different Thursday songs in your shittily constructed intro track, "No Sympathy for a Fallen Angel?" Yes, you're right! I can hear moments of the exact guitar structure of both "I Am the Killer" AND "Autobiography of a Nation!" Good work!

And then you pretty much completely rip off the vocal patterns from any given song on This Day Forward's In Response on "Goodnight," ultimately failing to incorporate any original flavor of your own while you include half-hearted "hey!"s and dumb-as-nails breakdown riffs. "Sleep With the Lights On?" Absoultely loving the spoken word bit that sounds like it was straight out of A Static Lullaby's And Don't Forget to Breathe, for real dudes.

And your lyrics! Oh my! These are as refreshing as the use of my blatant sarcasm! The supremely cinematic scene is surely set in "Lost and Lonely," definitely worth blockquoting for:

I'll take my weapon of choice, hide it on the shelf above your bed
She said the window I want you
And I'll take some string, tie you up so I can watch you bleed
Your heart, this time I swear you'll die
Thanks for bringing back this subject matter into the fold, Clearview Kills, because it totally sucks that bands like Boys Night Out realized how childish and, from some angles, misogynistic it is.

And that one vocalist who sings in that sort of gravelly bellow? Hands down, the Luciano Pavarotti of our generation.

But the chorus in "The Stereo?" So playful! Thank the gods of nü-emo it lacks any substance whatsoever! And that you guys sound sloppy as fuck when those jangly chords come in, completely fucking the song up and making it all the more hilarious!

I think you guys say it best in "Make Up:" "So forget all these cliché melodies." I'll be sure to heed to this advice!

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Goodnight
Sleep With the Lights On
The Stereo







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    Posted by strykker5400 on 2007-04-26 22:33:02

    shut up pussy.
    take greenday out of your cd player and listen to real music.

    Posted by Goon on 2007-04-11 20:35:40

    sure the production on this record wasn't the greatest, but this review is just uncalled for. Clearly the person that wrote it hasn't got laid in a long time. maybe he should stop spending all of his time on punknews and try match.com.

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 9:12 AM (EDT)
    My Score:

    ahhh your are out of your mind!
    like seriuolsy go kill your self.
    CLEARVIEW KILLS! IS AMAZINGG!
    AHH YOU MAKE ME SOOOO MAD! I AM LIKE FLIPPING OUT!
    YOU FUCKING PISS ME OFFFF

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 10:54 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    WoAHH dude!
    Are you out of your mind
    Like why would you write such mental things about such an amazing band.
    If you yourself could personally do better yourself then I want to see with my own eyes cause what u wrote like seriuosly discuusssssted me I am sooo shocked that anyone could everr right anything that rude about clearview I am amazed how much u think that they suck! Like I don't agree with u on one single thing.
    Your always gunna be wrong.
    Seriuosly NO one disses
    WILL TANG!

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 10:54 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    WoAHH dude!
    Are you out of your mind
    Like why would you write such mental things about such an amazing band.
    If you yourself could personally do better yourself then I want to see with my own eyes cause what u wrote like seriuosly discuusssssted me I am sooo shocked that anyone could everr right anything that rude about clearview I am amazed how much u think that they suck! Like I don't agree with u on one single thing.
    Your always gunna be wrong.
    Seriuosly NO one disses
    WILL TANG!

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 7:13 PM (EDT)

    these guys worked hard...thats all i have to say and i saw it first hand from the start when there wasnt even a cleavrview yet. I dont really dig the shit but i know they have the talent they just need to slow down and put more thought into it. and by the way better off dead fucking owns. Will is the man

    Posted by Sally_Field on 2006-04-19 18:15:41

    YEAH PITTSBURGH!
    sike.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 12:16 AM (EDT)

    Fuck brian, this might not be the best thing ever but its good and the musicianship/songwriting would run circles around alot of stuff

    Posted by danperrone on 2006-04-17 11:17:53

    "boys in bands still singing about killing their girlfriends"

    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 1:25 AM (EDT)

    I ove this band and they are much better than boy's night out.

    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 1:03 AM (EDT)

    This review is BS, these dudes are good.

    Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 16, 2006 at 2:11 PM (EDT)

    Brian:

    Excellent review. Thanks for pointing out the misogyny in their lyrics. More bands need to get called out on that bullshit. Hating women isn't punk and never will be.

    -Ken

    Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 16, 2006 at 12:48 PM (EDT)

    "That is both an ad hominem and red herring argument. TWO logical flaws. It doesn't matter whether a critic has a band, or if said band is bigger or better. What matters is whether their critique is true.

    I have no opinion on this band, as I've never heard them. It's just that that argument ticks me off so much."

    Exactly. It doesn't take Michael fucking Flatley to point out that retards with broken legs can't do the Riverdance. I loather when people try and use this as some kind of defense of a band. You don't need to have walked a mile in someone's shoes to tell them their band sucks.

    Posted by kirbypuckett on 2006-04-16 02:13:30
    My Score:

    Score is for the Berlin Project.

    - Kirby

    Posted by Scruffy on 2006-04-15 21:18:18

    "i'm sure your band is bigger and better."

    That is both an ad hominem and red herring argument. TWO logical flaws. It doesn't matter whether a critic has a band, or if said band is bigger or better. What matters is whether their critique is true.

    I have no opinion on this band, as I've never heard them. It's just that that argument ticks me off so much.

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 7:07 PM (EDT)

    gotta love the shit coming out of pittsburgh right now! let's give it up for all of the shitty cliche bands plaguing the 'burgh!

    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 2:45 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    full lenth buddy!

    Posted by givemeamuseumandillfillit on 2006-04-15 08:36:49

    Derp!

    Posted by sceneupdates on 2006-04-14 21:36:44
    My Score:

    They have like 2 MySpace friends, how bad can they be! lolz
    Score for review

    Posted by lol_omg_wtf_nambla on 2006-04-14 21:19:23

    Y'know, before I got to the end I thought Brian was being a little mean, but then I read the lyrics. Now I'm glad that there's a good old fashioned barnburner up for a band that deserves it.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 14, 2006 at 6:39 PM (EDT)

    Guy a couple down from me, make no mistake, bands typically end up seeing every review ever written about them, and the punknews.org review is probably within the first 3 they read, especially smaller bands like this.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 14, 2006 at 6:17 PM (EDT)

    i'm sure your band is bigger and better.

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 14, 2006 at 5:46 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    Fuck that. The EP isn't the best, but the songs are good. Live this band is mind boggling. When they put out a full lenth I'm sure I'll hate them then because every screaming little loser in the world will love them

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 14, 2006 at 4:25 PM (EDT)

    Haha, I just saw on their MySpace that they're playing a show at the venue down my street tonight! I should totally print this review out and hand them all copies or something.

    Or just laugh through their entire set. That'd work too.

    Posted by Inspection12e on 2006-04-14 15:10:36

    "HA! You just got f'd in the a!"

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 14, 2006 at 1:56 PM (EDT)

    Fucking ouch! This band isnt that good though, still... ouch!

    Willis needs to resurrect Better Off Dead.

    Posted by darkstarm on 2006-04-14 13:08:36

    That is what the fuck I am talking about. Take no prisoners.

    Posted by KirbyPuckett on 2006-04-14 12:00:14

    Holy shit Brian, haha.

    - Kirby

    Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 14, 2006 at 11:50 AM (EDT)

    These are as refreshing as the use of my blatant sarcasm!

    Brilliant!

    Posted by Sanada on 2006-04-14 05:28:57
    My Score:

    Score is for the review.
    Gotta love sarcasm.
    I'll be sure to avoid this album.