Album Review: Hey Violet Show You Love “From The Outside”
Sugar punk is what Hey Violet serves in their debut record, From The Outside; a cool title for a band that approaches pop music like S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Images of leather, spiked biker jackets and pink, pumped Doc Martens should be on high display of this band’s fashion/ swag. You can imagine them rolling into a Diner like a pack of blissfully lost youth reading to serve guitar riffs and vocal rage instead of burgers and fries.
Hey Violet – O.D.D. (Visualizer)
What I love most about Hey Violet is that they show angst as a daily player for youth, which it is. I do not know one fellow “youngster” who does not have one thought or moments of “Ugh!” in their day. In some ways, that small grunt is a giant symbol for being emotionally over what can be encompassed as “everything”, and what From The Outside is based upon. “Guys My Age”. “Break My Heart”, and “This Is Where I’m Breaking Up With You” are all about the feeling torn up by the idiocy of relationships. While everybody marvels at how bonds can turn sour through miscommunication, boredom, or even malice, Hey Violet boil all that down to plain human stupidity. Sometimes, foolish guys do not what a fierce woman they have in front of them, and it can go vice versa. The point is that in a world of individuals searching for love, we have the tendency to claim there is no “good” people out there; only to skirt the “good ones” into friend-zones and go with “FUQBOI” or some oddly satisfying, dramatic relationships that we excuse to be “Like Lovers Do”. This particular song is my favorite for its victorian flare; as if kings and queens were waltzing around with daggers of betrayal. Lead singer Rena Lovelis has a voice that is as sweet as a pop-tart cream-filled with nails. She appears sugary until crossed or tossed as in “My Consequence” , “Hoodie”, or “Unholy”. While she laces her voice with syrups of seduction, when not sentimentally corresponded, she dwindles it to a whimper trying to rebuild itself into a battle cry. Amongst all these nuances, are a sonic back-drop made for radio.
Hey Violet – Break My Heart
“Brand New Moves” and “Where Have You Been (All My Night” can easily be blast on the radio or an electronica club. Hey Violet current their instrumentals to spike and split like and electricity chord that has been cut near a running faucet; you watch to see when the sparks will meet the water and the beats will blaze like in “O.D.D”. Like all good pop, Hey Violet have a surprising wealth of wisdom on love that is covered by rhythms seemingly aimed only to move your body. Yet when you, actually, listen to their words, you feel like you have found someone that understands love, for however great an endeavor, can be really dumb. for mOre Information On Hey Violet And To Buy From The Outside Click Here.
Hey Violet – Brand New Moves
