Set Your Goals - BurningAt Both Ends

Wed 6th Jul, 2011 in Music Reviews

To kick off Cure For Apathy is hardly a track worth listening to and Start The Reactor is essentially a story concerning youth and rebellion, a typically adolescent and unmoving song. Certain is a pop rock voicing with determination, yet their music could hardly be embraced by many over the age of twenty one. The ambition is here but the hook is uncertain and hard to ascertain. It plays through without much attention grabbing and the band seems akin to a juvenile and soft variation of Hawthorne Heights, only more upbeat and with a positive message. Happy New Year gets involving three quarters of the way through, this is brief merit on what is an engaging part of the record. London Heathrow is a teenage pop song that lacks flavour or originality.

These guys are more of a support act than a headliner, however Trenches is something somewhat better but unfortunately still remaining lacklustre and unimpressive, and so its a waiting game for the punchline that never arrives. There are staple shouts and multiple vocals but nothing all that exciting. For a change, The Last American Virgin provides a welcome shift that helps provide some faith to the album’s integrity.

Exit Summer showcases their more pop-punk side, yet their style is still lacking in anything original or enthusing. The album is basically a collection of pop-rock stories mostly concerned with teenage themes, adding to an already saturated market. As a result, it is difficult to praise many songs aside for perhaps Product Of The 80s, though only for its subject. Some brief moments of conviction are evident in Illuminated Youth, and Not As Bad is the final listed track and also the best on the record that deserves a notable mention.