Normally I don’t go in for Emo bands. The line gets drawn at Screamo… and maybe Sum 41, because Obscure was a good game. Anyway, I’m on this forum and someone posts a thread about really shit house covers. This guy is clearly into his rap music, because the song he posts is Framing Hanley’s cover of Lil Wayne’s Lollipop, saying how amazingly shit it was.

After enjoying the track I retalliated by saying he clearly hadn’t heard Avril Lavigne’s cover of S.O.A.D’s Chop Suey. Don’t pour shit on me for the link, you could have not clicked it after all. What I can’t believe is that there are people in the crowd still clearly cheering, evne after she clearly starts laughing… WTF!? Don’t ruin another good band’s good tracks and think it’s funny, bitch.

Anyway, this is what got me into Framing Hanley at first. Liking the first track, I promptlyhit up Amazon and downloaded The Moment album…
And no, I don’t use iTunes because Amazon is about $0.50 a track cheaper with the exchange rate the way it is and they don’t have bullshit DRM so I can actually put the music on my phone as well as my iPod, never mind about giving copies to friends.

Anyway, back to the review, I was really quite surprised. The rest of the music didn’t sound a damn thing like Lollipop. Hating myself, I decided to check out the LilWayne version. Guy’s clearly got a ghost writer, because that doesn’t sounda damn thing like his other tracks either (yeah, I have to listen to FOX and Nova at work, fucking bite me).

Back to FH. The music’s actually not all that bad. There’s some really good guitar work in there, and the album does vascillate between emo and screamo on a regular enough basis to be enjoyable for someone like myself. For the most part, it is standard teen angsty crap, but there are a few gems here and there, such as the track Hear Me Now.

Singer Kenneth Nixon clearly has some talent, being able to sustain notes for some time without vibrating between surrounding ones, and can go from a falsetto to a scream like a snap. 

Of course there are standard downsides here. The story behind the band name is typically emo, bordering on so standard goth. Prepare for cliche: Band is named for drummer’s dead girlfriend. Now, you may also be tempted to say that they sound pretty commercial… Well, yeah, they were discovered by Brett Hestia. Y’know, from Creed… Yeah. Oh well, don’t let that ruin it for you.

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