Album Edition 5
Hello music lovers! Welcome back to music reviews, today I have something special. It's another album review! Yay! I'm doing a little better, still not healed completely, but I'm looking forward now. This album has really been helping me, and you will see why. The album I am reviewing today is Duality by Set It Off! I've been listening to set it off a lot, and their music has really been a great way for me to think about moving forward.
Track 1. The Haunting. This is the opening track for this album, and it's an amazing first track! The instrumentals are soooo good, I especially love the guitar and the drums. "Love's so alive, but died in it's sleep. And now that it's dead, I live in your head and I will haunt your f****ing dreams." "No one will love you like I did, will treat you like I did. So go on, wear that scarlet letter." "No one will love you like I did, will touch you like I did. So good luck finding something better." Aren't these lyrics just perfect? and singing this song is so therapeutic.
Track 2. N.M.E which stands for No More Excuses. The intro of this is really cool, it has this like creepy child's chorus like from a horror movie. All the instrumentals on this album are just dead on, and sound amazing together. "You should escape, skip town, no more excuses. Abandon ship, or drown, no more excuses do you even have a plan of attack." "a way to react, oh no, you should escape. Skip town, you're better on your own." As much as I hate feeling alone sometimes, I have interpreted this song to mean that you don't need someone to be happy.
Track 3. Forever Stuck in Our Youth. This track is unique sound wise, like it doesn't sound like anything I've heard before. Also the singing in this band is just phenomenal, the dude has such a neat voice. "we're young, we're young, we're dumb and we don't care. No and I don't owe you an explanation, we're young, we're young, we're dumb and we don't care. Forever stuck in our youth." This song is talking about how when you're young you make mistakes and sometimes you don't care. But you also learn and grow when you're young, and that makes you a better person.
Track 4. Why Worry. I love this song, I think it's really fun. The intro reminds me of another song that has a similar intro, that song is Stutter by Marianas Trench. Both tracks have this hand clapping beat as an intro. It's a neat way to start a song. I like the melody, it's really upbeat. "please tell me why do we worry? Why, why do we worry at all. Why , just tell me why do we worry, when worry's never helping." That's true, why do we worry about things? It's never helped us, worrying only makes us panicked. I have a hard time not worrying about things sometimes, I get inside my head and I lose control of my thoughts sometimes, which turns into worry. This song is telling us to just breathe, and to know things will be ok.
Track 5. Ancient History. This is probably one of my favourite tracks on this album, I love it so much and really spoke to me. "I know I know how to drive you wild, you know you know how to make me smile, but I need you to be my ancient history." "I know I know, who you really are, you know you know how to break my heart. But I need you to be, my ancient history." This song is talking about moving on, and to leave someone in the past. And as hard as it is, these lyrics have really helped me. Plus the melody is so much freaking fun! This is a great healing song.
Track 6. Bleak December. It has this sort of chopping melody that makes you just want to tap your foot, and nod your head. "How do you even sleep at night, as I drive and drive. In that bleak December, you're just too cold but I need the answer, before you'd fold." "you would hold your cards inside your chest, I think I drove too far for that bleak December." I think that means he went too far with his feelings or something, or maybe he loved too hard and ended up getting hurt in the end. Something we can all relate to in some way I'm sure.
Track 7. Duality. This is the same as the album title. I like how this one is arranged, it starts off kind of slow, but with the chorus in the intro as well as throughout the song. Which I think is pretty cool. "I can't quite contain, or explain my evil ways. Or explain why I'm not sane, all I can say is this is your warning. I can't quite contain, or explain my evil ways. Or why I'm not sane, all I can say is is this is your warning. Duality." He's saying how, not everyone is perfect, and that we're all human. Sometimes we don't always need to be perfect all the time, we just need to be us and we mess up. But messing up is apart of life. Because that's what being alive is about.
Track 8. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (feat. William Beckett) I always want to make sure featured artists are recognized. This track is really good! It's kind of a revenge song, "Tell me how you're sleeping easy, how you're only thinking of yourself. Tell me how you justify, telling all your lies like second nature, listen mark my words one day. You will pay, you will pay." "Karma's gonna come collect your debt." Talking about how actions have consequences, and how the things you do can come back to haunt you. I like the meaning of this song, because it teaches us how careful we need to be sometimes. You never know what can happen.
Track 9. Tomorrow (feat. Jason Lancaster) This track is perfect for working to feel ok again. "They're gonna try to clip your wings, lock you up and make you sing. But they'll never cage your dreams so fly away." "cause we've got tomorrow, we're the pages in the wind, we've got tomorrow. We're the tale that lies within, there's always another day, another night, a bittersweet blessing in disguise." "tomorrow, we're be the authors of our lives tomorrow." This song is talking about always looking toward the future, and how there's always another day on the horizon. It also talks about how you should go after your dreams, no matter what people say. Also we're the ones who write our own stories, we're the only ones who can shape our lives. And live how we want to, not how someone else wants to.
Track 10. Bad Guy. This song has a dance feel to it, which I appreciate as a dancer. But it also has this nice wholesome vibe to it. "I stole the moon, I made the stars align, I showed you how to fly. and you made me the bad guy." "I fought for you, I kept you safe at night. I would have risked my life, and you made me the bad guy." This explains how, he did all these things for someone but in the end they made him seem like the one who wasn't good. Sometimes even though we try hard to make things work, they don't always. He doesn't see what he did wrong, because he would have done anything for this person. But it wasn't enough.
Track 11. Miss Mysterious. The final track on this album! This song has really been helping me heal, the message in this one is really good. "I said go, run for your life, and tell me I'm right." "Or let me know when your heart went numb, I said go, run for your life." "and tell me I'm right the saying goes, if you love someone let them go." The melody is really nice and soothing which is perfect for a healing song, and it's true sometimes even though you love someone so much, you have to let them go. That's what I'm trying to do, it might not be forever. Maybe we will find our way back to each other again, but for now I need to move on and let them go.
That's it for this review! I hope you check out this amazing album, and other stuff from set it off because they are such a good band, I love their music a lot. Until next time everyone.
