Saves The Day

Saves the Day wasn't on the original list of music, but I’m reviewing them them instead of one of the other bands. They have been a favorite of mine since middle school, and I loved their albums ‘Through Being Cool’, and ‘Stay What You Are’. The purchase of their most recent album was made in blind faith. I hadn’t heard any of it yet, but I was sure that it was worth the 15 bucks. In my mind I thought that they must have made a great album to make up for the disaster that was ‘In Reverie’. It’s hard for bands to beat their original albums, and I figured that ‘In Reverie’ might have been rock bottom for Saves the Day. I was wrong. I thought, from here, things can only go up. It wasn’t even that bad. It was satisfactory at best. It had the sort of appeal that broccoli did when you closed your eyes and pinched your nose closed. If you didn’t know what you were getting, then it was fine.
I was entirely wrong. ‘Sound the Alarm’ is the end of all that is good in Saves the Day. They have taken on the task of the myspace music generation. They’ve conformed to all other depressing emo drag. Self-mutilating, self-deprecating garbage is what they have become. ‘Sound the Alarm’ is chock-full of references to graves and hell, the word "burning" is simply over used, and death is eminent, with self-inflicted injury is the center of almost every song. In retrospect, Saves the Day has always been a sort of violent band. The difference is that their anger had always been outward, about hurting people they didn’t like and whatnot. Those with ulterior purposes are generally based around a theme of the end of the world, or expressing to the listener the extent to which nobody cares. Well, I think I know why no one cares. It’s because you, Christopher Conley, are too whiney for your own good. You know, they don’t give out a Grammy for the most references to suicide in a single album. To top off the repulsive lyrical arrangement, Conley's voice is different, way different, almost painfully different. It's whiney, its high pitched, its as if someone just stole his Power Ranger action figure and wont give it back. I ask him this: did you go through a life-changing surgery? Are you on steroids? Did you recently take voice lessons from Mike Tyson?

All true Saves the Day fans are yearning for the days of ‘At Your Funeral’, and ‘Firefly’. The Old Saves the Day receives a 7.5…they get points off for crying too often. The new Saves the Days reviews a 1.346…because they don’t even deserve a 2..