NEVEA TEARS ‘Do I Have To Tell You Why I Love You’
Alveran Records (2005)
Have you ever heard of the name Nevea Tears before? Well, I hadn’t, but I can promise you that I’m never going to forget it from now on – unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. I normally find it very difficult to write a review right after I have finished listening to a great album. In this case, I find it very difficult to write anything, simply because I cannot get the right words to describe how much I dislike this release!
'Do I have to tell you why I love you?' is a product of four musician’s ambition to mix together a variety of totally different music styles such as Hardcore, Emo and Techno. Yes, you heard it right, and believe me that for a person who loves challenges such as me, everything sounded quite promising. The last thing that I would like to see is for young artists to become predictable and to imprison their creative impulses for the sake of publicity. All that before I started listening to this forty-two minute torture!
It didn’t take long to realise that something is going on with this album, since it takes less that fifteen seconds for the person who will decide to experiment with his nerves to come in contact with the band’s vocalist John Morello. I really don’t want to even think of what he was possibly doing with his throat the night before he was due to record his vocals, but I guess that there is a reason why he chose to use 'Throat” as his artistic nickname. It is indeed some of the worst vocals that I have ever heard in my life, and unfortunately they are present on almost every single composition of this ten-track album. The band is trying to create some sort of Atmospheric Hardcore music, but all the good attempts to put together any decent guitar and keyboard melodies are lost underneath tones of distorted and out of tune vocals!
The only two songs that have managed to raise my eyebrow (just a bit) were 'Johnny Cash v. the Space Coyote” and 'In Sickness and in Health” which came too late (it is the last track of the album), only to save a few things before the boat finally sank.
If you think that I really enjoy writing bad reviews for bands, you are sadly mistaken. I have tried to listen to this album quite a few times before I sent this review to our webmaster, but every time I did that, I ended up angrier and more frustrated than before! Sorry, guys!
Review by John Stefanis
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