Piebald
All Ears, All Eyes, All the Time (Side One Dummy)
by Evan Solochek
Warning: The following review is a typical, cynical music snob rant.
Well, okay a new album from pop/emo-punk elder statesmen Piebald. What Piebald has produced on their fourth full-length album is, in my opinion, a tragically typical pop-punk record. Granted, Travis Shettel’s voice and lyrics are not as unbearably whiney and nasal as what’s-his-name from New Found Glory, that guy who sings in Yellowcard, that hunk from Brand New, or that guy in Simple Plan who looks like he’s 13, but there’s still an adolescent punk undertone throughout the majority of the record that I just cannot stomach. I will, in the interest of fairness, make some concessions. Piebald does stray from the pigeonhole that I, however fairly or unfairly, placed them in a few times, such as on the bouncy, piano-driven pop song, “Haven’t Tried It,” as well as on the fairly admirable Ben Folds impersonation “Part of Your Body is Made Out of Rock,” and the earthy, classic rock homage “Get Old or Die Trying.”
But probably not.
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