Not the Best Desicion - 1/5
“Hello, we are Void Pleasantries” vocalist John McKellar briefly says into the microphone on Void Pleasantries latest live album of “Unheard of (live)”. From the past two EPs I reviewed for this band, expectations ran high, but listening through the first few tracks of the album, it’s unfortunate to say that those expectations fell, crashing and burning at the same time.
The vocal approach goes from wavy to confident throughout the album and demonstrates the tight rhythm section of rhythm guitarist and bassist Connor Kyle and Thomas Shaw. But the quality of the drums sound more like an amateur recording off a mobile phone to the lead guitar playing of Ross McKellar sounding like a screeching pitiful mess, and just placed on the album for good measure as well as the almost painful crowd response of a mere handful of claps and cheers which leads me to ask why did Void Pleasantries even record this? I highly respect them as a band from their previous EPs and some fantastic lyrics, but this is one album which is, to be perfectly honest, best worth avoiding.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Mist/84236816691?ref=ts#!/VoidPleasantriesBand
The vocal approach goes from wavy to confident throughout the album and demonstrates the tight rhythm section of rhythm guitarist and bassist Connor Kyle and Thomas Shaw. But the quality of the drums sound more like an amateur recording off a mobile phone to the lead guitar playing of Ross McKellar sounding like a screeching pitiful mess, and just placed on the album for good measure as well as the almost painful crowd response of a mere handful of claps and cheers which leads me to ask why did Void Pleasantries even record this? I highly respect them as a band from their previous EPs and some fantastic lyrics, but this is one album which is, to be perfectly honest, best worth avoiding.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Red-Mist/84236816691?ref=ts#!/VoidPleasantriesBand