Adair – The Destruction Of Everything Is The Beginning Of Something New

Kevin Lynman definitely knows what is hot now, and he’s doing all he can to cash in on that popularity train with his new label/company Warcon Enterprises. Not only is he responsible for the highly successfulTaste Of Chaos tour, he’s also released many highly successful albums in the past few months, much to many critic’s dismay. And Adair is the latest band to be spat out by the ever growing company, and I’m sure it will do very well even though I doubt I’ll see one positive review for it anywhere on the internet.

For you see Adair‘s The Destruction of Everything Is The Beginning Of Something New is, sadly, the “in” thing at the moment; and it won’t be long before every single emo boy and girl with jet black hair and a myspace account will be talking about it. But really, I doubt they deserve it that much, because you’ve heard absolutely everything on The Destruction… before in more than one setting and on four or five different albums. It is just your generic, whiny emo again and again.The vocals are almost an exact rip off of Bert McCraken on a few songs, I’m sure I’ve heard the same guitar melody a million times before, and the lyrics are trite. I mean, just look at The Diamond Ring which croons “I’m Teething, I’m Teething, I’m Cutting My Gums For The First Time. You’re Stabbing My Heart. you Said We’d Be Forever After, And You’d Stay With Me Through Everything. This is my heart. This Is My Heart” and you can feel some brain cells dying.

Although to be fair Adair haven’t followed the formula exactly, and have experimented a bit. Adding some more melodic parts and some more pop-rock moments too, like Folding & Unfolding, along with some straight forward instrumentals like the introduction, The Destruction Of Everything or In The Corner, Quietly Dying, actually makes the album bearable. If they had stuck to the same formula, without ever changing it up than they would be in even more trouble.

While this CD is bearable, it is very boring. Nothing grabs your attention or makes you want to hear more. Instead, I always find myself counting down the tracks until its over so I can move on to something else, and you know that that’s a bad sign. But who cares what a lowly music reviewer thinks? Because sadly, this thing will still sell like hot cakes.