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The Dears: Ticket To Immortality
by holliy
The Dears' new single possesses that kind of achingly worthy, sub-epic mediocrity which could make any subject matter – in this case, achieving your life’s ambition – sound utterly uninspiring. Leaning heavily on long, drawn-out chords - the ones which’re probably meant to sound uplifting but actually possess an aura of unconvincing, drab sincerity - it harnesses their drudging, leaden dullness to reduce this potentially most inspiring of messages to blandness.
Not that the Incredibly Sincere vocal line assuring the listener that “The world is really gonna love you” (in case you hadn’t noticed, it currently hates you - you’re soooo misunderstood) needs much help to sound trite…
'Ticket to Immortality' has an aura of somewhat embarrassing earnestness: the kind which sees those who get too close to it wind up being sermonised at for hours about the wonders of the Macrobiotic Diet, or maybe Jesus. The kind you’d to go great lengths to avoid in any social situation. But fortunately for you, dear reader, all you have to do is press the Stop button. Thank heavens for modern technology.
From the archive
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Ooof
Ooof!
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Ouch
No Cities Left is one of my favourite albums of all time.
For the new album, they seem to have dropped everything which made the last album special and they now just sound like a standard indie band. Gutted. Totally gutted.
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Hmmm....
....after spending a bit of time with the new album, I've grown to love it as the rest of my housemates have also. Its very different to No Cities Left, but its lovely in many places. Its low-key prettiness and there's a time and a place for that. Fact.
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a tad harsh?
i like this song and the albums ace, easily as good as No Cities Left and a natural developement from it.... though thats just my opinion... what do i know?
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i never trust it
when people end a statement with ", Fact." It's an attempt to stifle debate and it bugs me...
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no way
completely th opposite to your review the single is brilliant as is gang of losers favourite track fear made the world go round
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i usually say 'Fact'...
...to indicate that i've failed to make a coherant arguement, so you're right to be suspicious. But said house mate 'computerman5' makes a better case, without ending with the offending word.
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I feel very inclined to defend this.
As I completely disagree with this review. It seems to me that you just don't like this based on the fact that you don't appear to like the approach that it takes to its chosen subject matter... You're making a personal attack on a song. Too many reviewers do this and to me, its a bit pathetic.
Fair enough, I love this song which probably doesn't give me the right to dissect this review from a completely unbiased point of view. But hey, its your opinion, just as my opinion on this review is that its an unnecessarily personal pile of wank.
Just don't review the album yeah?
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the dears
reviewer just doesnt like it. as for not sounding like no cities left, well done dears. why people constantly want fave bands to make the same album twice is beyond me. interpol did it to terrible effect,so did strokes, so will editors no doubt, yet the dears have made a very brave album, raw and edgy. You and I, and Bandwagoneers and Whites Only Party are in no way 'indie rock' mediocrity. ha ha, i think the album is just too sophisticated for this reviewer...
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lamacq on roundtable..
very happy after reading all this, to hear that the Dears won the vote tonight on Roundtable up against yeah yeah yeahs, tapesntapes, etc, so hopefully this will shut you all up for 5 minutes...jeez...one of the most birlliant live bands i have ever seen and youre all moaning already!!
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I'm...
moaning because they seem to have lost what made them special. They're stupidly brilliantly live, and yeah, they're one of the best I've ever seen.
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I like it...
I really like this song. I loved No Cities Left more, but Gang Of Losers is still very good.
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