When Hawthorne Heights lost guitarist / screamer Casey Calvert to an accidental prescribed meds overdose, they almost lost the will to go on with it. Luckily they soldiered on and came to terms with their loss while writing “Fragile Future”, which turns out to be their best album to date. Which still isn’t saying all that much.
I wasn’t exactly a big fan of Hawthorne Heights’ first two releases and that was largely due to Calvert’s screams. As terrible as it may sound, the lack of screaming on “Fragile Future” lets the band’s knack for writing catchy melodies shine through more than before. Which in turn makes me actually enjoy their third album.
Calvert lives on in the lyrics though in “Four Become One”, “Rescue Me” and “Disaster”. This is pure emopoppunk a la Taking Back Sunday with a little early No Motiv mixed in. Nothing original, just an album packed with slick songs.
Score: 7 out of 10
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Score: 7 out of 10
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