A Types

Hopesfall | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 2, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Trustkill Records
• ASIN: B00065Y8VG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,010 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ending of a Genre, March 22, 2005

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Michael Williams - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Types (Audio CD)

Hopesfall was one of the most intricate emotional metalcore bands ever created. Powerfull vocals, certian subtle background elements and moving guitar arangements in songs like "End of an Era" and "The Bending". Everything they released was purely artistic and incredibly intricate. Then they lost their guitarist and then everything went wrong. "A Types" lacks in pretty much every way with a failed attempt. They tried for a sound that was somewhat different but This Day Forward's last piece of work "In Response" release does it in a better way. Instead, buy This Day Forward "In Response" cd and wait for the new Curca Survive April 22nd release and Marigold's first release if you want good and very orginal versions of this hybrid metalcore genre. With the break up of Sky Came Falling, This Day Forward,and Posion the Well and A Life Once Lost's failed newer work, and now Hopesfall losing their talented guitarist therefore changing their style, the old emotional metalcore is close to being dead with only a very small amount of bands keeping it alive. Now the genre is starting to be reformed, which progression is great, but some bands often sound imitating and cliche. Support the ones that do it well and different. I wouldnt say that they sold out but this cd isnt what Hopesfall was about and doesnt contain enough orginality to be entitled a more "mature" album. Just because something has screaming in it doesnt make it inmature and is often a false asumption, especially considering how much orginatly "Satellite Years" and "No Wings to Speak of" contained and there is no way to deny it unless you have a closed mind.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars not what i wanted to hear, May 17, 2005

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only~the~clouds (Manchester UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Types (Audio CD)

I respect the fact that .hopesfall. didnt want to make a 'Satellite Years Part 2. I respect the fact that artists have to evolve as they mature, and that creative growth is more important than writing music purely to please the fans rahter then the band. But i *really* cant get into this cd. I think a large part of this is down to Jays vocals, which really dont do it for me, theyre just too nasal for my liking. He had such a powerful, and lets face it, f*cking scary, guttaral scream on The Satellite Years, i wish he'd have used it more on this cd, even if it wasnt as much as before.

A lot of reviews ive read said that it takes a few spins to really get into this album, and ive definately played this a lot of times in the 6 or so months since ive had it, hoping that one day it would suddenly seep in to my brain and id love it, but its just not happened. To me most of the songs on here just blend into one another, theres not much to distinguish them from each other, and i find this gets dull and repetetive.

Musically it falls somewhere between recent Glassjaw and maybe newer Cave In, but it doesnt have any of the driving riffs or uniqueness of those two particular bands.

Its not all bad. I like the artwork for this release, its sort of a continuation of the space theme from TSY, but there are martian/angel type creatures instead of space pods and the layout is made up of dark red colours rather then the royal blue/navy of previous. Its good to see hopesfall still put effort into choosing artwork that goes some way to compliment the music.

There are a few tracks on here that i genuiunely like. 'The Ones' is very reminiscent of the spacey guitars on TSY, and it also has a really sweet drawn ut instrumental end. Breathe from Coma, and Icarus are also decent well written rock songs which i can enjoy

However, pretty much everything which i loved about hopesfall on their earlier works isnt present on A types. Its not even really an emo album, if youre looking to compare it to bands like, i dunno, The Used or A Static Lullaby; it doesnt have any of the pop hooks that bands like that have.

Ill still continue to support the band since all of their other work has really connected with me, but unfortunately A Types wasnt as awesome id hoped. Maybe the months of anticipaction just killed it for me, but the music that made .hopesfall. so special and unique isnt here on A types.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS NOT THE SAME BAND, November 20, 2004

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Benjamin Maccarthy (CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Types (Audio CD)

Complete disappointment. Ok, it sounds good, its catchy, wow he almost makes me tear with his vocals. What happened to Hopesfall? Did their lead singer get kidnapped by a [...] $$$ robot. The big wig over at Trustkill Records must have pulled all the guys into his office one day not to long ago and said this: "Alright its clear you have talent as you showed on Satellite Years. But this time you're going to forfeit your artistic brilliance for radioplay. Its going to let down all the serious Hopesfall fans out there, but of course that doesn't matter. Make a record that won't scare away the general population with screaming and yelling. Guys, what is important to you now is $$$"
Really, it's a good album if you're an emo-head, but OG hopesfall fans have officially been let down. [...]