Imagine From First To Last and My Chemical Romance collaborating with Yellowcard and you’re not far off from where I Am Ghost are at. Yes, I know that’s weird, but then this is an odd band that seem to have got their genres a little mixed up. Looking like they escaped from a goth factory, their AFI-meets-MCR look will certainly win them an army of dissaffected youth fans. After the initial piano warblings of ‘The Dead Girl Epilogue: Part One’, the band launch into the first of many mini-My Chem songs. In pretty much every single way ‘Pretty People Never Die/Vampires Really Never Die’ sounds like Gerard Way and co. It’s horribly blatant.
Then the weird Yellowcard-esque violin kicks in on the album’s title track and the band suddenly heard into pop-punk territory. While I Am Ghost manage to churn out quite a few memorable choruses over the course of nine songs, there are plenty of things wrong with this CD. ‘Kiss Me Like You Wanted – We’ll Never Tell’ is so blatantly ripping off MCR it’s not even funny, while the nu-emo whining of ‘Civil War Isolation Trust’ is post-hardcore by numbers with an added twist of violin.
I guess it was inevitable there would be a sea of piss poor goth-punk clones, but you’d think Epitaph would be a little less blatant about their attempts to cash in on the market. Apart from the female backing vocals and the violin this is simply a poor amalgamation of the last two MCR records – right down from the vocal style to the song structures. And when I say poor versions, I mean it. I Am Ghost are just far too predictable and generic to score too highly, although I’m sure they’ll do well enough. I mean MCR have for a start…
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