Hyland: Weights and Measures
Posted September 13, 2011
By TCMRB,
Going into this blog I wanted to find some bands that I had never heard of and review their music. Hyland is one of those bands. I had heard their song "This Love is Free" on the radio, but I had never heard any of their other stuff before. Then I found out that Weights and Measures was their first album. Then I found out that they are Tooth & Nail Records newest addition. Tooth & Nail has produced some of my favorite bands like The Almost, Thousand Foot Krutch, FM Static, Aaron Gillespie, Family Force 5, and Sent By Ravens. I was very excited to download this album and start listening to it.
The first time I listened to the album I absolutely loved it. After listening to it three times I started to nothing something about the album though: most of the songs sound almost exactly the same. Each song has its own little flare, but most of the songs sound really similar.
The two songs that really stuck out to me were "This Love is Free" and "Fireworks." "This Love is Free" is a nice worship type song with a rockish feel to it; and it is probably the most emotion-filled song on the album. The song compares to "Hero" by Abandon (see the previous review on them). The album really paints the picture of our Savior and His love for us. Singer Jon Lewis says in the song, "Love is leading me, holding nail-scarred hands, forgetting where I'm from or who I've been. Love has carried me on His broken back, to a place where I can finally see this love is free."
"Fireworks" stuck out to me mainly because of the chorus. Jon talks about disguising sing to make it look better, which is the fireworks (a way to disguise it). He says, "I'm tired of this lust disguised as love," which is one of my favorite lines on the album. The song is also very emotion-filled. It is a little bit more edgy than "This Love is Free," but it is almost as emotion-filled.
Hyland does a good job of mixing it up with fast paced songs and slow paced songs. They went from a song that makes you want to get up and just dance around ("Fireworks"), to a song that could put you to sleep (in a good way) because it is so mellow ("Coast to Coast"). However, all the fast paced songs pretty much sound the same, and all the slow paced songs sound pretty much the same.
By the time the CD reached the last song "Never" (appropriately named for the last song on the album) I was not ready for it to be over with. The CD has something about it that I cannot describe. It had so much emotion throughout the whole project. I cannot wait to see what else they put out in the future. I just hope their next CD will have more diversity as far as the sound of the songs.
Favorite Song: This Love is Free
Favorite Lyrics: "How many times can I fail you before you say your through, that you've had enough. A thousand times have I fallen and still you keep calling, you never give up. You said that you'd never leave me, you'd never forsake me, you'd never let go. You said you'd come to my rescue, that you'd be my refuge, to never lose hope." (From the song "Never")
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