This is really big because it finally establishes that you don’t need to wear twee costumes with butterfly wings to play Sufjan songs, you can totally do it when you wake up with your dyed-black bangs covering your lip rings, too! See, no need to go out of your way and dress up to play Sufjan songs. Watch some angsty Hot Topic teens cover “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.” (what, you expected “Adlai Stevenson”?) at Hipster Runoff.
Posted on 17 May 2008
Tags: Evanescence
The Daredevil soundtrack provided a nice boost for this previously unknown quartet from Little Rock, Arkansas. Evanescence’s songs “My Immortal” and the imposing “Bring Me to Life” are clear standouts in the film, mainly because they work so well with the dramatic, eerie undertones of the storyline. They reappear here on the band’s debut, alongside a selection of similarly brooding tracks that evoke pensive artists like Tori Amos and the Cranberries. Vocalist Amy Lee has the kind of voice that can cause weeks of insomnia, but on songs like “Tourniquet” and “Haunted” she belies the music’s sinister mood with evenhanded spirituality, thoughtfully letting some light shine through the tempest. –Aidin Vaziri
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