Aw yes, the album review: A 300-500 word write-up explaining all the eccentricities pretentious wordsmiths love and hate about a band’s new album. While most reviews tend to hover the line between a positive and negative analysis, we’ve found that some seem to deviate from the pack choosing to spend their time putting an artist down for months of hard work.
We, on the other hand, would rather give the power back to the artist by letting them take a stab at reviewing (or simply explaining) their new music. And in order to make that process as easy (and fun) as possible, we’ve decided to give the artists one word and one word only to describe each song off their new release – thus creating the one word album review.
Featured on today’s OWAR (One Word Album Review; come on, keep up) is Varials’ gritty and unrelentling Fearless Records debut Pain Again. Coming in at 11 ruthless and cold-blooded tracks, Varials’ latest LP is the slobberknocker you’d expect from one of Philadelphia’s best up-and-coming acts.
Now, before we turn this too much into our own review, we’re going to pass things over to the band as they carefully chose eleven words to describe each one of their painfully honest tracks. After reading what the band had to say about Pain Again, be sure to pick up a copy here before the album drops tomorrow.
“New Damnation”
Beefy.
“God Talk”
Precise.
“Anything To Numb”
Anthem.
“EDA”
Angry.
“Colder Brother”
HEAT.
“Pain Again”
Catchy
“Abacus”
Weird.
“Empire of Dirt”
Assbeater.
“Deadweather II”
Sequel
“Deliverance”
Spicy.
“To Lay in Sin”
Pimpin.
