What’s the 4-1-1?
Debut EP by the Toledo, Ohio five-piece.
Genre
Hard rock / emo / post-punk / new punk
The Good
I only had to sit through five songs. I really dug the model on the cover too.
The Bad
I tried and tried to find something good about this release, but every time I thought I had something, I was reminded at how piercing, whiney, annoying, and out-of-tune the vocals were. The band has some decent beats and chord changes similar to 70s David Bowie and more recently Jet. However, Jeremy Lublin’s vocals are so accentuated and over-emphasized to mimic the style of late 70s glam and post punk, that they are jarring to the ear and impossible to enjoy. Despite his American roots, Lublin does a great job of sounding like every British punk band frontman that didn’t quite have it. Perhaps if he was backed up by hard charging punk rock distortion and frantic chord changes, things would be different.
The Verdict
Just awful!
Did You Know?
We Are the Fury was originally know as The Fury, but had to change their name due to legal reasons.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Originally posted by author at Rock-Is-Life.com
Edited: [GH]
Article comments
1 - Cydnie
Rawr! I absolutely LOVE We Are the Fury! They're meant to sound whiney, it's totally sexy. Jeremy Lublin is amazingly charismatic with the way he manipulates his voice and the words. It's definately rare these days to find someone so talented put down by some silly man with a punk fetish.
2 - Joe
Good Review. Being from Toledo (and opening up for them on a few occasions) it's been funny seeing these guys change their name and tsyle every time a new genre becomes. They went from Nu Metal to emo to screamo to indie about a year and half after each genre started to get air play.
3 - Kelsey
TERRIBLE review! We Are The Fury is god. They are absolutely AMAZING. By far my favourite band. Just because you have no clue when it comes to music.. everyone has different tastes so fuck you
4 - Chris Beaumont
Exactly, everyone has different tastes, what makes his any less valid than yours?
5 - adam
as a close personal friend of the fury, i can say that they have changed their style everytime the trend changes, but its been because what they were already doing got popular. you got it backwards son
6 - get your shit straight
I can back up the above comment. We Are The Fury used to be Hearsay back in 1998 and 1999 WAY before nu-metal took off the summer of 1999.