If You Could Only Keep Me Alive

by The Dangerous Summer

Overview

Emo ranks up there with speed metal as a contemporary musical style that has a strictly enforced set of stylistic parameters that it's bad form to push against. Maryland teens Dangerous Summer (named after Ernest Hemingway's bullfighting book) are entirely proficient at their brand of mainstream alterna-rock emo, but anyone who has heard more than one other band in this style will notice within 30 seconds of opening track "I Will Stay" that this quartet hasn't got a single original idea. Every emo cliche is present and accounted for, right down to Cody Payne's upwards-modulating vocals on the choruses. However, Dangerous Summer do this sort of thing quite well, and those who don't consider originality or inventiveness a prerequisite for enjoyment of the style will likely get behind this adequate but unspectacular EP. ~ Stewart Mason

Product Details

Release Date:	01/13/2017
Label:	Hopeless Records
UPC:	0790692069514
Rank:	37537

Tracks

1. I Would Stay
2. The Permanent Rain
3. Here We Are After Dark
4. Wake Up
5. Home
6. Disconnect
7. Of Confidence

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Dangerous Summer   Primary Artist
Matt Parsons   Vocals

Technical Credits

Paul Leavitt   Audio Production,Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Jesse Burton   Design