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Albums like this, A Day To Remember's And Their Name Was Treason, are bound to be forgotten. The band mashes together bouncy, feel-good rock and modern metalcore bursts, which expectedly are equivalent to chugging, double-bass-heavy breakdowns with growled vocals, and the results are overwhelmingly negative. In addition to playing a style of music that has long passed its prime, A Day To Remember's music is full of gimmicks and is poorly structured.
There are some truly catchy moments littered throughout And Their Name Was Treason. A Day To Remember can write formidable vocal hooks and catchy, lightly metallic guitar riffs, much in the vein of Boys Night Out. But when the band switches gears and, seemingly at random, delves into the single-note breakdowns, all momentum is lost. They feel like interruptions in the listening experience; like someone in another room decided to listen to an Atreyu record at full volume without any sort of warning. With no breaks from this tendency in any of the album's 10 songs, it's difficult to even finish listening to And Their Name Was Treason in one sitting.
If the choppy music itself isn't enough to irk listeners into smashing the stop button, the lyrics will be. The sappy words of the acoustic "You Had Me At Hello" are vomit-inducing, while most others get "dark" and "violent." In "Heartless," young listeners will encounter perfect words to cope with their recently destroyed, teenage romance: "Do the world a favor, stop cutting your arms and slit your throat."
Give me a break.
A Day To Remember, while admittedly made up of capable musicians, plays like a bunch amateurs. There's nothing on And Their Name Was Treason that listeners will remember once this style of music finally loses all of its steam or once a few months pass. A Day To Remember should drop the pseudo-violent metalcore and concentrate on their poppy side, if anything. Bands need to stop wasting time writing this sort of trite nonsense.
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