Hidden In Plain View – Life In Dreaming

Go and get a dictionary. You got it? Now look up the words “Highly Anticipated”, look around, I’m sure you’ll see a picture of Hidden In Plain View‘s new album Life In Dreaming there. After all the push backs and drama their label went through, Life In Dreaming soon became the talk of the town. Questions were being thrown every. Will they be able to follow up their successful self-titled EP? Will they somehow mess up and screw the album up? Will they change their sound to suit the Drive-Thru Records roster a little more? Will Bleed For You be on it? Now, all those questions are answered.

Life In Dreaming successfully completes the incredibly difficult task of following up to the band’s first Drive-Thru release and even surpasses any expectations that were put on them. The eleven song album is edge, catchy, emotional, and fresh. The dueling vocals, very similar to Taking Back Sunday‘s Tell All Your Friends album, blow you away; especially inGarden Statement. The song, which starts off very similar to most Hidden In Plain View tracks, simply blows up at the half way point as both Joe Reo and Rob Freeman throw alternating vocal melodies back and forth supported beautifully by a soothing melody.

We could sit and dissect each section of this album, but really there is no point. There isn’t one standout portion of the album, instead, what stands out is how well everything compliments each other. That is what makes the album so spectacular. Nothing over powers or shadows another portion of the song as they experiment with various melodies and speeds. They kick it off with the fast pace song Bleed For You, then slow it down with The Point, and shocks you with the even slower Innocent Ones that clocks in at over six and a half minutes before kicking it back up with American Classic.

If Drive-Thru Records keep releasing albums like this one, then this could very well prove to be their landmark year. But one question does arise, how many different versions of Twenty Below are they going to release?