Mayday Parade Self Titled Album Review/Download

Mayday Parade. Fearless Records gave them their big break, and the band started gaining popularity on MySpace with songs such as "Miserable at Best" and "When I Get Home,You're So Dead" off of their freshman album "A Lesson In Romantics". The bands landed a top 40 debut on the Billboard 200 with 2009's "Anywhere But Here" with the strength of the single "Kids In Love". All of the songs I mentioned, I loved. with "When I Get Home" still being my all time favorite. The new self titled "Mayday Parade" looks to score the band a top 20 album, possibly even a top 10 with strong first week sales on iTunes. The album, in my opinion, is their best work yet, or at least up to the level of their first album.

"Mayday Parade" opens slow with "Oh Well,Oh Well". Or so you think. What starts off as a slow song turns into the song sung by angry guy moving on from a relationship and singing over roaring guitars "Oh well oh well, guess I'll see you in hell" which is probably my favorite line from the entire album. The whole album is a great example of everything a pop punk record could be. However, I would like to see the band tackle more subjects and themes in their songs. Lead singer Derek Sanders seems to be struck writing about love and girls, and relationships that have gone wrong or relationships he can't have. Many pop punk bands fall into this rut, of writing the same material over, but nonetheless, the way its presented (the instrumentation and vocals) make up for the lack of content in the lyrics.

My favorite songs on the album are "Oh Well,Oh Well", "Without the Bitter, The Sweet Isn't As Sweet", "When You See My Friends", "Call Me Hopeless,Not Romantic", and "You're Dead Wrong". I really want to compliment the outros on the songs "Call Me Hopeless", "Without the Bitter" and the final song of the album, "Happy Endings are Stories That Haven't ended yet". It was the perfect ending to this album. The songs I listed are the most memorable on the album, and overall, I was say there is a moderately high replay factor for the album.

I definitely suggest this album to you all, more reviews to come such as Evanescense and Coldplay, along with an artist profile blog on Finnish rock group "Sunrise Avenue". Hope this helped you guys out if your thinking about buying the album. I'll be picking up a hard copy soon.

Download the album free here: Mayday Parade-Self Titled Album Download

92/100

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