Three New Bands for February
As we passed the building outside, we could hear the windows rattle with the beat. Yeah, it was way too loud. We got to our cars, and the parking lot guy came out to talk with us again, as he did before the concert. Friendly is certainly a good description for him. Our ears recuperated on the way to my son's apartment, and we slipped the CD onto his player. First, however, he put another CD in and played parts of it, then went into the Abbington CD. After a bit, he asked, "Could you tell when the bands changed?" I had to admit I couldn't, then my son said, "See, I told you they sounded just like Dashboard Confessional." About the only difference I heard was that Dashboard was a bit more acoustic and Abbington is more electronic and bit heavier. My comments while listening later were: The vocals sounded like a cross between a yell, cry and singing. The instrumentals come across as heavy alternative. I suppose I'm not really into that hard emotional sound, but Abbington still seems good at what they do. I'll have to give them a benefit-of-doubt 4.
You've heard me address the question: "What is Christian music?" Here, I wrestled with that question, and gave the benefit of doubt to the next artists.
My first step upon hearing about Amined was to visit their website. After some browsing, and reading of their lyrics, I thought, "OK, I suppose I can still do this." I even e-mailed another artist and got his opinion.
I e-mailed the band's manager and got a fairly quick response. Out of the e-mail, I got that the band comprised members with diverse mainstream Jesus-professing backgrounds. The band is presented as having a unique sound, and even the term "emo" was used in reference to Amined. Since, as I said regarding Abbington, I'm not very up on the emo and emo-like sounds, I asked Nick, my son, for his opinion.
Nick said, while listening, and giving thoughtful looks, "OK, they sound a little... like... No, I guess not really. OH, OH, They sound like... no, not really them either." I told him Amined describes their sound as "unique" and he said after a puzzling shrug, "Yeah, I guess that could describe it." I thought Abbington and Amined sounded somewhat similar, but not really enough to call them comparable.
I describe the musical style as alternative, with
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