Painkiller_Hotel-Afterglow-2010-iTS

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    ██▓ ▀█▄▄       ARTIST ...: Painkiller Hotel                    ▄▄█▀ ██▓
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          █                                                         █
          █  01. 3:24   I Understand                                █
          █  02. 3:28   Afterglow                                   █
          █  03. 3:44   Take My Hand                                █
          █  04. 3:17   Can't Have It All                           █
          █  05. 2:58   I Never Thought It Would End This Way       █
          █  06. 3:29   Crave                                       █
          █  07. 2:59   If I Only Knew                              █
          █  08. 3:53   Already Dead                                █
          █  09. 4:01   Life's Gonna Bring You Down                 █
          █  10. 2:55   Wait For Me                                 █
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          █  Painkiller Hotel is a pretty little known bandùI       █
          █  mean, they donÆt even have a Wikipedia page for        █
          █  crying out loud. TheyÆre a bit more prominent than     █
          █  one might think, though. Their songs have been         █
          █  featured on such television shows as MTVÆs The Hills   █
          █  and Real World. TheyÆve been compared to such bands    █
          █  as Live and Tonic, and played over 200 shows while     █
          █  touring the Midwest last year. Starting out in the     █
          █  underground music scene of Chicago, this rocking       █
          █  quartet broke out with their album Black Roses last    █
          █  October. Less than a year later, theyÆve released      █
          █  their sophomore effort Afterglow. Although a bit       █
          █  uneven, Painkiller Hotel delivers an enjoyable, if     █
          █  not generic, listening experience.                     █
          █                                                         █
          █  ôI Understandö gives the record a very energetic       █
          █  beginning. The first thing I could think of when I     █
          █  heard them was the band Cavo or Lifehouse. While not   █
          █  a very unique voice these days with the whole          █
          █  Daughtry-style music thatÆs being cranked out these    █
          █  days, Prez is obviously a very powerful vocalist with  █
          █  a bit of a country vibe. Although he starts well, his  █
          █  voice loses its luster midway throughùas if heÆs just  █
          █  ready to get the song over with. ôAfterglowö sounds    █
          █  very much like a Rob Thomas-esque backwoods tune.      █
          █  Although I donÆt particularly enjoy country, this one  █
          █  is quite nice. ItÆs a slow-tempo yet very pleasant     █
          █  ditty with creative lyrics, the main one being ôYou    █
          █  were like the sunset/and IÆm the afterglow.ö Some may  █
          █  call that clichΘ, but I found it quite nice. And       █
          █  while not quite as eerie or depressing, ôTake My       █
          █  Handö has that same distant quality that I love so     █
          █  much about ôBlack Hole Sunö by Soundgarden. Except,    █
          █  you know, with some funky country mixed in. ôCanÆt     █
          █  Have It Allö has a haunting melody, but the lyrics     █
          █  are a bit on the typical love song territory. ôYouÆre  █
          █  terrified/from all these lies/IÆm feeding you/to hide  █
          █  the truth.ö Yeah, not my favorite song on the album,   █
          █  but still not terrible. The band departs from the      █
          █  usual country for a more alternative soundùwith        █
          █  light, skippy guitar and fast-paced drums. ôCraveö is  █
          █  a raunchy yet slow-paced tune where he lets his        █
          █  vocals really shine, working the scales like a         █
          █  master. ôIf I Only Knewö reminds me of American Idol   █
          █  alum Kris Allen, maybe just because of the whole       █
          █  happy, upbeat song talking about death (AllenÆs way    █
          █  over-played ôLike Like YouÆre Dyingö). Although his    █
          █  voice sounds good, I just donÆt find the lyrics        █
          █  appropriate with the heavy metal and funky rock        █
          █  qualities of the song. By this point, IÆve come to     █
          █  realize that Painkiller Hotel has abandoned their old  █
          █  country tunes from the beginning of the album, and     █
          █  are moving into Daughtry territory where all the       █
          █  songs sound the same. ôAlready Deadö is the perfect    █
          █  example of thisùSkillet, Nickelback, Shinedown, so     █
          █  many artists could have sang this song and IÆd never   █
          █  know the difference. Not to mention his vocals sound   █
          █  weaker than usual here. Just as I was losing hope,     █
          █  ôLifeÆs Gonna Bring You Downö came onùand while still  █
          █  rock-heavy, the lyrics exude misery, and the song has  █
          █  a nice balance of rock and simple lyric-driven guitar  █
          █  melodies. The final song ôWait For Meö is a bit of a   █
          █  letdownùit channels DaughtryÆs ôSeptember,ö minus the  █
          █  commanding vocals which allow the song to soar. It is  █
          █  simply one-note, and while nice, does not transport    █
          █  the listener whatsoever.                               █
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          █  As surprised I am to say this, I think the band is     █
          █  strongest when they dig into their country roots. IÆm  █
          █  not a big fan of the genre on a whole, but Painkiller  █
          █  Hotel delivers in that medium. When they go into the   █
          █  ballads dripping with sappy inspiration is when they   █
          █  are at their weakest, and donÆt reach their full       █
          █  potential. IÆve gained a lot of respect for            █
          █  Painkiller Hotel by listening to Afterglow, and hope   █
          █  they donÆt sink into the generic pit of pop singles    █
          █  like so many before them have.                         █
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