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Music: Evanescene fallen
The new post-grunge/hard rock, Arkansas based band Evanescence’ is fast climbing the charts with their debut album Fallen. The band’s talent was recognized after the brilliant track Bring me to Life was included in the Daredevil soundtrack. The beauty of their sound lies in the contrast between the dark brooding music and the lead singer, Amy Lee’s angelic vocals. The lyrics of each song are extremely intense and full of meaning.
The album starts off with Going Under in which Lee shows off her voice with sudden high and low notes. Then comes, Bring me to Life, the song which was the key to their success to begin with and the following track Everybody’s Fool is pretty similar but is a great song all the same.
The album then slows down with My Immortal, the heartfelt ballad(-ish) track about losing someone you really cared for. Haunted is an eerie number that starts off with typical graveyard music and pretty much stays that way throughout the whole song, definitely not one of their better works, but it helps in speeding up the album a bit once more. Then there’s Tourniquet a song about... suicide and salvation. Quite a pointless number, but well sung all the same. Imaginary is another number showing off the singer’s amazing vocals, followed by Taking Over Me, definitely a good song and one of my personal favourites. The album slows down again with Hello, which Amy Lee sings with full fervour and feeling, but to be extremely honest the slow songs in this album are definitely not the better ones.
The last two tracks, My Last Breath and Whisper hold a resemblance to each other and mark the signature sound of Evanescence. As one goes through the album, this signature sound becomes more and more prominent but it doesn’t really give the album a bad feel, although it would be recommended that they try to make the beginnings of their numbers a bit less alike to each other. Obvious effort for this has definitely been made but needs improvement. Other than that the album is definitely a brilliant compilation as a debut.
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