A Post Punk Wassail
Posted November 27, 2011
By IronJedi,
Our Heart's Hero offers a "spirited" collection of fresh and inspired holiday favorites on their Christmas album Love Is Breathing. The band's inventiveness and creativity on each track give each song a unique vibe, yet conserve elements of the originals' recognizability. Whether a slight lyrical or all-out musical-updating, an unanticipated stylistic swerve, or an unexpectedly juxtaposed medley, each reworked madrigal is a celebratory anthem to the most awesome of holy days.
The band's sound continues to be influenced by the post-punk sound, with stylings similar to Blink 182, Everyday Sunday, Green Day, Relient K, and Suburba, but avoids clonliness with their own unique leverage of influences and stylistic contributions- no mean feat for an album of refreshed traditional holiday carols. Raise a wassail toast to the guys from the band! If you think you'd enjoy the fruitcake-like mash-up of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mannheim Steamroller, the aforementioned Relient K, and Hawk Nelson, then I'd suggest you gift yourself with this snazzy yultide present.
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