The Hourly Radio - History Will Never Hold Me
Reviewed by justin
Musically, History Will Never Hold Me could ably command a positive fluidity in any club that encourages shagging in its bathroom stalls. It’s lead singer Aaron Closson’s pure emo vocals that deny The Hourly Radio their seductive fervor, as he continuously proves that his earnest pain is just about the unsexiest thing ever. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that this isn’t solely the result of a disjointing inability to focus the direction of his band’s sound, but even if he is genuinely hoping to introduce a marriage of catharsis and sleazy nonchalance into the spectrum of human consciousness, he mostly just squanders the sexualizing properties of his album. The band is thus relegated to a capricious purgatory, because if we can’t fuck to this pain, than why would we want it? [www.thehourlyradio.com]