The Fully Down – Don’t Get Lost In A Movement

This is going to be a short review. Not because the CD itself is short, but more so because the CD doesn’t deserve a long review.

I’ve been playing The Fully Down‘s Don’t Get Lost In A Movement over and over again for the past few months now, always trying to find something positive in it, and really I just can’t. It’s not horrible, it’s just so incredibly generic that after a while you get bored with it. There’s not one thing on the entire album which gives Don’t Get Lost In A Movement a step up on it’s competition, instead you get the same watered down emo rock again and again and again. The same tired melodies, the same riffs, the same vocals harmonies. It’s all the same. The songs themselves even mold into one another. The vocals are the same smooth, over produced vocals you hear on most emo albums. Then, trying to trick their fans into thinking they are a harder band then they actually are they’ll throw in a few heavy breakdowns during the bridge – but they can’t hide from the truth, and as soon as the vocals come back in they mellow out once again. And while they have a few moments of slight hope, particularly the much harder song Descent, Rebellion, And All Around Hell Raising (which brings to mind Nitro‘s A Wilhelm Scream because the singer actually put some effort into this one), a minute or two out of a forty minute album isn’t enough to make the CD worth the price tag.

It’s not the worst CD around, it’s just way too generic to be really entertaining. Fans of My American Heart or Silverstein will probably enjoy it, but me, I need something that I haven’t heard a million times before. Just way too forgettable.