Most Helpful Customer Reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best!!!!!!! ^^, March 2, 2009
This album epitomizes both the vocal depth and hard-rock-edge that is so characteristic of Eyes Set to Kill. In addition, Alexia's unique songwriting talent really presents itself with the intellectually meaningful lyrical attributes brought about in the songs.
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4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Keep Reaching. You're Not There Yet., September 19, 2008
While they should be commended for their initiative, the ladies and gentlemen of Eyes Set to Kill produce music that is flat as a board and easy to nail down into one overpopulated, facepalm-worthy genre. Yeah, you already know which one.
"Melodic" screamo/hardcore. Like Lacuna Coil, the female vocals are nice, but ruined by their surroundings. Changes of pace are much needed in this music. Or any kind of music, for that matter. Unfortunately, Alexia Rodriguez's breathy, dramatic vocalizations are nothing new to anyone who's heard a Paramore song. Paramore are not particularly unique, either, but at least something like "Misery Business" deploys the "soft, melodic feel of female vocals" on legitimate earworms.
As for the quasi-masculine yelp screaming and "Ohio Is For Lovers" cookie monster howls... well, I'm running out of original nasty things to say. Here goes anyway.
You all sound like you're two years old and throwing a temper tantrum somewhere off in the distance while the grown-ups are trying to enjoy their music. Parents of hardcore kids with musical tendencies: just give me a damn break already. Please. Be a parent. Shut your kids up. Beat them black and blue if you have to. They might even like it in some cases.
Eyes Set to Kill are at their best when they embrace melody and pop structure. "Where We Started" is perhaps the most melodic, heavy tune on-board here, beginning with a lilting piano riff which is soon joined by some ham-fisted grunge guitar. The token ballad, "Give You My All," reveals that sans vitriol and loud guitars, their sound is more akin to an unreleased collaboration between Jewel and Avril Lavigne: heart-on-the-sleeve, crying-in-the-dark, but with just a touch or lip-curl of "bitch" to keep their edge.
Or maybe it's more like Alanis? "Listen to all of this glass shatter // It pierced my ears and made them bleed." To be fair, balladry like this tends to come off quite a sight better when the woman singing it is actually singing in a register which comes natural. At least they can lord (lady?) that over all the other ladyjeans-wearing guyliners they tour with.
Heaviness and volume married to delicacy can work. It can work splendidly. Eyes Set to Kill just don't bring anything fresh to the table. Fans of female fronted bands in the vein of Paramore or Evanescence might find something to enjoy here, but look elsewhere for innovation, and do your ears and sanity a favor: if you hate cookie-cutter wrist-cutting emo songwriting, treat this like Chernobyl. Stay away!
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Jimmywu says this band rocks, April 10, 2008
I just had to do this my daughter Monkey Girl told me about this band and said she had heard a couple of songs off their cd Reach and they were really good.So I went and checked them out my self and lo and behold she was right.Eyes Set To Kill Cd is great For A young band they are very talented. I dont know very much about the band except that they write all their own music and do all of their own leg work on My Space.Here Are some of the songs I like off there cd 1 Sketch In Black and White 2 Violent Kiss 3 Young Blood Spills Tonight 4 Give You My All.This band has a young fresh sound all their own and the talent to go far. If you have a chance to check out this cd I think you will not be disappointed. P.S.I thought someone would have written them a great review by now? If you want something done right I guess you have to do it your self ROCK ON!!!
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