Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice by H.I.M.
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- Record Label: Sire/Warner Bros.
- Release Date: Feb 9, 2010
- Summary: Finnish goth-rock outfit, HIM returns with its seventh studio album on Sire Records.
- Record Label: Sire/Warner Bros.
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Top Track
| Ode To Solitude | |
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| Easy on the eyes, uneasy on the heart Sew my wrists shut Sew my wrists shut with hope straight into light Shining bright I dare you you to dream... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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When the band are a little more concrete and less spooky, the results are especially compelling, but Screamworks is ultimately successful in its blending of melody and muscle. [Mar 2010, p.90]
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This is a solid album, rife with brooding love metal and big choruses, but while this is HIM’s most accessible album to date it’s also the most unpalatable, as Ville takes one step too many towards self-satire.
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If I lived completely under a rock, I'd say Screamworks, and HIM in general, would hit Twilight tweeners straight in the heart with its dark, dismal and dire themes, but the more mature crowd would see the excessive sentimentality as almost self-parodying.
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The material sits within the band’s canon well enough to please longtime fans, and listeners looking for some kind of middle ground between Evanescence, late-period Queensrÿche and Fall Out Boy will more than likely find a few wicked gems to hang their heads to.
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Old-school romantic Ville Valo croons as often as he screams, so that even when aiming for the stylistic median, a bit of local weirdness oozes forth to make Screamworks more interesting than it's designed to be.
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While his lyrics are lascivious to a point, songs such as "Love," "The Hardest Way" and "Heartkiller" are strictly soft-focus, with any semblance of attitude--or actual sex--air-brushed into radio-friendly oblivion. [Mar 2010, p.102]
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The tracks' composition may seem similar but the great sound and nice lyrics make this album a must for H.I.M fans and is in my opinion theirThe tracks' composition may seem similar but the great sound and nice lyrics make this album a must for H.I.M fans and is in my opinion their best just after Razorblade Romance.… Expand
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Great work. Great sound. And great band.
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To me this album seemed to become something totally new from the band without them losing the features I have always loved them for.
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Aside from the autotuned mess that is the first track, this album is fantastic.
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Although is not a bad album, I think H.I.M. tried to go a little bit more mainstream with this album.
Something that will attract newAlthough is not a bad album, I think H.I.M. tried to go a little bit more mainstream with this album.
Something that will attract new listeners. Some kind of pop-rock choruses but other than that it still feels like H.I.M.
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This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Screanwork love in theory album of him
To me it sound very new Him ville valos going into Gothic tinged alt rock popular dark Finnish roots thid album seems to become something totally new from the sound and music that he make for 19 years band Screanwork is ultimately successful in its blending of melody
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So far his lyrics are lascivious to a point, song such as "Love", The Hardest Way"Heartkiller"are strictly soft focus radio friendly I think him is going mainstream with this album I love it