Track Listing

1. Life On Standby
2. Dissolve And Decay
3. Niki FM
4. Transition
5. Blue Burns Orange
6. Silver Bullet
7. Screenwriting An Apology
8. Ohio Is For Lovers
9. Wake Up Call
10. Sandpaper And Silk
11. Speeding Up The Octaves

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98658 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-06
• Number of discs: 2

CD Description
A hard-touring Ohio band with a debut record that didn't reach the Billboard charts until a full seven months after itsinitial 2004 release, Hawthorne Heights plays a bracing brand of emo rock. The group combines the punky tunefulness andspeedy rhythms of the Descendents with a heavy, prog-influenced sound that owes more to the "math rock" and "screamo" scenes. "Silver Bullet" begins with complex Rush-like start-stop unison fills, before giving way to an ultra-catchy chorus that would make fellow Midwesterners Cheap Trick smile, while "Ohio Is for Lovers" adds a healthy dose of guttural throat-shredding over lyrics that examine love and death. "NikiFM" uses metallic riffing and careening lead guitars to evoke a seemingly obsessive relationship. Equal parts raging post-hardcore and gentle melodicism, THE SILENCE IN BLACK AND WHITE is a dynamic, appealing emo album.

Customer Reviews

oh dear lord
i heard this album after hearing ohio is for lovers which i still think is a great song but the album is so wishey washey with average songs that i was really let down,emo is a genre i like,i dont love it but hey there are some good bands in it,the singer whines none stop and the album seldom rocks like say silverstein,it just drags on and has little to say,the lyrics are weaker than a new born kitten and the originality is nowhere to be seen,maybe they will improve,maybe they will stay as they are and fade into nothing folks