Review - HelloGoodbye – Would It Kill You?

In what seems to be a killer weeks for new albums being streamed online (cue Green Day’s latest live offering next . . .), Punktastic are this week streaming the new HelloGoodbye release. Definitely not an album I would have picked up in the shop, and even after listening to their latest release Would It KillYou, picking it up, just might. I am not at all inclined to go and buy this, even after listening to it.

I have read some rave reviews for this, and I thought it was going to be good. I was sorely mistaken. I didn’t get this at all. They have had some good hits over the last few years, the clear stand out being Here (In Your Arms). Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn was also a great track, and there were a few others, the names of which escape me at this time.

Either way, what I noticed on this, was that each track was just forgettable, and there was nothing here that would ever make me want to put this on for a second listen. It sounded whiney and dirgy in places to me, and there just seemed to be a clear lack of great songs. Listening to this on the same evening as the new Yellowcard album has clearly done this no favours, but still, on any given night, this would still sound as bad as it did tonight.

I genuinely thought that this may have been a bit of a diamond in the rough, but I was mistaken. It seems completely redundant, and there is nothing that is going to make this stand out from the stack of killer albums that have come out over the last few months. It is clearly not even the best HelloGoodbye album, so it would never stand a chance anyway when considered up against some of the finer moments of the last few months.

Personally, I thought that this was dire, and would not recommend it in the slightest. I couldn’t even suggest one track that I thought was catchy, or had anything to offer of note.

I might even go so far as to call this “abysmal” – especially in comparison to this bands competition in the scene. At this time, there are so many bands doing this type of music so much better, that this does not even warrant a look in.

1/10

This should be how HelloGoodbye is remembered . . .