TIGER RIOT Look Up! (Brookvale)
Look Up! is the soon-to-be-released debut album from Tiger Riot, a five-piece band from Long Island. Look Up! is an album verging on pop-punk (All Time Low, The White Tie Affair) rather than one planted firmly within the alternative/indie rock genre.
Certain songs from the album have the potential to be popular with the mainstream audience, such as Damn These Electric Sex Pants and These Awful Words. These tracks are catchy and have the darker overtones that often capture the attention of teenagers, but the album as a whole may not be as popular due to tracks such as Daewoo on Fire and Smash Adams, which are too experimental for the mainstream to digest, despite Daewoo on Fire being one of the singles from the album.
The album disappoints as a whole considering its elements for potential success, as it is not catchy and simple enough to please the mainstream, yet lacks sufficient experimentation and cohesiveness of both the vocals and instruments to appeal to the alternative crowd. However, the album does gain points due to its unwavering efforts to focus on the instruments and not just the vocals, which is often the case. The last track of the album, The Trap, is perhaps the redeeming song on the album, having a great hook yet maintaining its raw honesty.
(Melissa Ng)
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