This emo album is hard but it drags. The music is certainly creative enough, but loses a lot when it comes to melody. Their weird chords strung together doesn't really create a direction for these songs. The vocals have that emo whine with a tiny tiny bit of Robert Smith (The Cure) "I'm singing scaaarrryyy," hint to it. Overall its an average emo album with slower type songs.
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Other coverage for this album
Decapolis 1999Reviewed by MarkThis is probably the most interesting CD I've reviewed so far. Octane Blue draw influence from bands such as Roadside Monument and Built To Spill, but add their own little twists and experiments. I thought that a lot of the songs tended to lose focus, but they were still enjoyable. B-Decapolis 1999Reviewed by TimI don't understand this kind of music. Maybe I'm getting old, or maybe I'm just not bright...The style seems forced...if they would just stop being emo or whatever, and just play without making the voice and guitars sound a certain way....then it would be good....but this just seems like they are trying too hard. A lot of people will love this...but I can't get into it. It is good to know that…Decapolis 1999Reviewed by Tom BastianI guess to start out I should note that this record "pays homage to both the 1986 Challenger tragedy (as you can see by the front cover) and the Chernobyl reactor meltdown in the Ukraine" as the inside notes to the CD inform the listener. The music is sort of a melodic math rock, with sort of a spaced out sound at times. A little hard to describe in writing, vocally on some songs I kind of hear a…Similar sounding releases
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