Scream Hello's Everything Is Always Still Happening

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March 2009 Music-Reviewer.com

Scream Hello's Everything Is Always Still Happening

By Heather Gioia
Intern

Artist Scream Hello

Title Everything Is Always Still Happening

Label Red Leader

Rating 6 out of 10

Slightly ADD? Then you should enjoy the mix up of emo, punk and indie that Scream Hello dishes out in their newest album Everything is Always Still Happening. Combining some of the most popular genres of music, Scream Hello has created an album that, for a lack of better words, is unique.

Formed in 2004, these New Jersey boys already have three albums under their belts and are planning on more in the future. In 2006 Scream Hello released The Infinite Son fallowed by both Smart and Stupid and Everything is Always Still Happening in 2008.

Everything is Always Still Happening provides a listening experience that keeps you on your toes wondering what will come next. From song to song, listeners will notice that the only commonality is the lyrical style, and at times even that's likely to change.

Starting off with a relaxed pop sound, Everything is Always Still Happening opens with 35 Plums which is then followed by You Have Good Taste, or The Gilmore Girls song. Any fan of the popular WB hit TV show will fall in love with You Have Good Taste. Referring to the show's main charters, the song specifically addresses Rory, “If only you could watch out through the glass on your TV Oh Rory, you are the one for me forget about Jess and Dean…” James Caverly, vocalist and guitarist, then continues to address Lorelei, Rory’s best friend and mother, “Lorelei, I know I’m young but mature for my age,” asking for her approval. You Have Good Taste is not just for the Gilmore Girls fans though with a simple yet impacting vocabulary and catchy course, this song reaches out to everyone who is or has been in love.

But don’t let the sweet-sounding fool you. Keeping your ears in tune, the sounds of Caverly and Daniel Kluxen’s guitar continue to change right along with the rhythmic beats of bassist Chris Connallon and drummer Adam Manus. No two rhythmic beats on this ten track album ever sound the same!

Embracing all they did in previous punk and hardcore bands, Scream Hello’s Bullets, embraces feelings of fear and anger reflected in both the lyrics and arrangements. With more of a gritty edge and darker sound, Bullets highlights the talents of Scream Hello as they prove their sound is capable of going anywhere. For example, if you bought this album assuming the band would be screaming the whole time, your patience is eventually rewarded. Caverly’s lyrics are loud, spastic and honest, as the sound behind his words is just as loud, spastic, and dark as his words are, “Helpless held by the throat, a hostage does what it’s told. Fear is a powerful thing; I’ve got this gun to show I’m so scared, I’m so scared, I’m so scared.”

The 52 second Business Ethics catches your ear first with the recognizable The Entertainer, then makes sure you are paying attention with a sudden change to a punk-pop sound. “Hope this isn’t the start because efficiency kills the heart,” ends the song abruptly. Business Ethics is a new twist on the interlude track, and one that will hopefully stick.

The band is not planning on hitting the road with a tour anytime soon, so Scream Hello fans (and fans-to-be) will be excited to find out that at the start of the new year they entered the studio once again. Recording at Exeter Recordings with Joe Dell’Aquila in Freehold, New Jersey, Scream Hello is staying on track -- recording completely new material that will once again keep listeners ears wondering... what's next?