(Music Blip) Hellogoodbye: "Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!"

Stringing together a couple emo-pop hooks and calling it an album isn't too much of an accomplishment nowadays, but Hellogoodbye has a little something different up their sleeves. It's hard to tell exactly what that something is, but one could most likely assume that that special something exists only in the studio. While a song like "Here (In Your Arms)" will sound amazing to any 15-year-old girl, any experienced musician can tell you that that song is 95% production and 5% of what the band actually sounds like. Sure the song is good (despite the overabuundance of Avril Lavigne lyrics), but its these incredibly electronic-laden songs that makes this album so attractive! Take a listen to "Figure A and B" and you'll here what the band sounds like when they're left alone with their instruments. It's not pretty.

So sure, I'm a moderate Hellogoodbye fan, but I'm wise enough to know that this album is not a good representation of what the band sounds like or how capable they are of playing their instruments. Is it a good album? I suppose. But it's almost assured to find itself collecting dust sooner or later. Still, it's a good debut.

Recommended for fans of Hellogoodbye, The Killers, and Rooney.

Key Tracks:
1. "All of Your Love"
2. "Baby It's a Fact"
3. "Here (In Your Arms)"

3 out of 5 Stars