Thursday, June 4, 2009
Cream Calendar / Reviews How I Became the Bomb's Fourth and Final Digi-EP, Through Adversity to the Stars
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:56 AM
If you follow this blog regularly and still haven't made up your mind about How I Became the Bomb, well then I just don't know what to tell you. But I can tell you they're about to release Through Adversity to the Stars--their last installment in a four-part series of digital EPs--and it's lush, quirky and indulgent as ever. It consists of three songs: "Atlas," "Gay Guy" and "Harvest." Singer Jon Burr's voice is at its least affected on "Harvest" (easily the best track), and while "Gay Guy" is hilarious and cleverly arranged, its over-the-top delivery might repel you if your threshold for saccharine pop hooks is low. Then again, if you don't like over-the-top pop jams, what the fuck would you be doing listening to How I Became the Bomb in the first place? "Atlas" presents a fairly promising melody early on, but it clocks in at less than two minutes--more of a grandiose tease than a deal-closer. Truth is, Adversity is not the best of their four digital EPs, but "Harvest" alone is strong enough to carry the entire record. It's their new "Secret Identity," an impressive pop number and a damn fine track to end the album on.
If you want to know what was going on in Jon Burr's noodle back when this whole concept was, well, conceived, go back and peruse his interview with Maloney last October. How I Became the Bomb are holding a "pre-release" show for Through Adversity to the Stars tomorrow, June 5, at Mercy Lounge. Lucky Pineapple, Coral Castles & Justin Kase open, and $7 will get you in.
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Because, Cato, prior arrests and wispy moustaches got them banned from most chat rooms. It's the real world only for them now.
More importantly - why is the album title a translation of the motto of Kansas and/or the Royal Air Force?
Direct quote from Mr. Jon Burr:
"When we go on tour in August, we are releasing a compendium, with CD, vinyls, and extra songs."
Matt S, thanks. It's information I could have gleaned by, apparently, taking the time to go to HIBtB's Web site.
While using military mottoes as album titles is pretty badass, using state mottoes would have been equally awesome. May I suggest Maryland's "Manly deeds, womanly words"? Or perhaps, Puerto Rico's "John is his name"? That's a clever little joke, right? Right?
OK, enough geeking. Probably not.
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