Album Reviews: Hello Beautiful: I Wanna Die Like this!

Imagine, if you will, a musical bowl. You start off with some elements of pop rock, a little ska, a dash of hip hop, a pinch of swing and just a garnish of power pop. Stir until awesome and serve very cool, and you’ve got Hello Beautiful.

This five piece band out of the greater Toronto area is getting set to release their second full length album, I Wanna Die Like This!, the much anticipated follow-up to their debut full length, Soundtrack for Scenario.

Where Soundtrack was primarily the hybrid of hip hop and ska with touches of other musical influences, I Wanna Die Like This! borrows just enough of the old to continue Hello Beautiful’s undeniably distinguishable sound, but clearly this is a band who’s not willing to coast because the maturing in this band’s sound is obvious right off the get go.

Anyone familiar with Hello Beautiful’s previous catalog will notice that I Wanna Die Like This! is an evolutionary step for this band. The comfortable ska progressions and grooving walking basslines are far from neglected, but the new additions of rocking guitar riffs and beautiful piano progressions are the stand out performances in this album; it’s new and awesome but not so different that it will ostracize the current fanbase.

Right away the opening track, Black and White, tells the listener that the boys have added some new tricks to their repertoire as the track starts off with a rocking pop punk introduction before bouncing into the sweetly familiar swinging hip hop verses.

The album loses no momentum going into the second track, Heart Beats, with the boys rocking out while the lyrical integrity has only become stronger and more profound.

By all accounts, this is an album everyone needs to at least give a listen to, and then promptly log on to ITunes and purchase. With upbeat party tunes like Back Burner, fun poppy tracks like the criminally catchy Some Days and an assortment of touching pop rock ballads like Tick Tock to round it out into a very satisfying listening experience. The lyrics are truthful and relevant, and the music backing them demands the listeners’ attention; this is going to be an album that will be difficult to ignore, you have been warned.

I Wanna Die Like This! drops this summer, get some variety to your library and pick this album up.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to memorize their lyrics to sing along at their CD pre-release party.

I’m out

Imagine, if you will, a musical bowl. You start off with some elements of pop rock, a little ska, a dash of hip hop, a pinch of swing and just a garnish of power pop. Stir until awesome and serve very cool, and you’ve got Hello Beautiful.

This five piece band out of the greater Toronto area is getting set to release their second full length album, I Wanna Die Like This!, the much anticipated follow-up to their debut full length, Soundtrack for Scenario.

Where Soundtrack was primarily the hybrid of hip hop and ska with touches of other musical influences, I Wanna Die Like This! borrows just enough of the old to continue Hello Beautiful’s undeniably distinguishable sound, but clearly this is a band who’s not willing to coast because the maturing in this band’s sound is obvious right off the get go.

Anyone familiar with Hello Beautiful’s previous catalog will notice that I Wanna Die Like This! is an evolutionary step for this band. The comfortable ska progressions and grooving walking basslines are far from neglected, but the new additions of rocking guitar riffs and beautiful piano progressions are the stand out performances in this album; it’s new and awesome but not so different that it will ostracize the current fanbase.

Right away the opening track, Black and White, tells the listener that the boys have added some new tricks to their repertoire as the track starts off with a rocking pop punk introduction before bouncing into the sweetly familiar swinging hip hop verses.

The album loses no momentum going into the second track, Heart Beats, with the boys rocking out while the lyrical integrity has only become stronger and more profound.

By all accounts, this is an album everyone needs to at least give a listen to, and then promptly log on to ITunes and purchase. With upbeat party tunes like Back Burner, fun poppy tracks like the criminally catchy Some Days and an assortment of touching pop rock ballads like Tick Tock to round it out into a very satisfying listening experience. The lyrics are truthful and relevant, and the music backing them demands the listeners’ attention; this is going to be an album that will be difficult to ignore, you have been warned.

I Wanna Die Like This! drops this summer, get some variety to your library and pick this album up.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to memorize their lyrics to sing along at their CD pre-release party.

I’m out

Imagine, if you will, a musical bowl. You start off with some elements of pop rock, a little ska, a dash of hip hop, a pinch of swing and just a garnish of power pop. Stir until awesome and serve very cool, and you’ve got Hello Beautiful.

This five piece band out of the greater Toronto area is getting set to release their second full length album, I Wanna Die Like This!, the much anticipated follow-up to their debut full length, Soundtrack for Scenario.

Where Soundtrack was primarily the hybrid of hip hop and ska with touches of other musical influences, I Wanna Die Like This! borrows just enough of the old to continue Hello Beautiful’s undeniably distinguishable sound, but clearly this is a band who’s not willing to coast because the maturing in this band’s sound is obvious right off the get go.

Anyone familiar with Hello Beautiful’s previous catalog will notice that I Wanna Die Like This! is an evolutionary step for this band. The comfortable ska progressions and grooving walking basslines are far from neglected, but the new additions of rocking guitar riffs and beautiful piano progressions are the stand out performances in this album; it’s new and awesome but not so different that it will ostracize the current fanbase.

Right away the opening track, Black and White, tells the listener that the boys have added some new tricks to their repertoire as the track starts off with a rocking pop punk introduction before bouncing into the sweetly familiar swinging hip hop verses.

The album loses no momentum going into the second track, Heart Beats, with the boys rocking out while the lyrical integrity has only become stronger and more profound.

By all accounts, this is an album everyone needs to at least give a listen to, and then promptly log on to ITunes and purchase. With upbeat party tunes like Back Burner, fun poppy tracks like the criminally catchy Some Days and an assortment of touching pop rock ballads like Tick Tock to round it out into a very satisfying listening experience. The lyrics are truthful and relevant, and the music backing them demands the listeners’ attention; this is going to be an album that will be difficult to ignore, you have been warned.

I Wanna Die Like This! drops this summer, get some variety to your library and pick this album up.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to memorize their lyrics to sing along at their CD pre-release party.

I’m out

Imagine, if you will, a musical bowl. You start off with some elements of pop rock, a little ska, a dash of hip hop, a pinch of swing and just a garnish of power pop. Stir until awesome and serve very cool, and you’ve got Hello Beautiful.

This five piece band out of the greater Toronto area is getting set to release their second full length album, I Wanna Die Like This!, the much anticipated follow-up to their debut full length, Soundtrack for Scenario.

Where Soundtrack was primarily the hybrid of hip hop and ska with touches of other musical influences, I Wanna Die Like This! borrows just enough of the old to continue Hello Beautiful’s undeniably distinguishable sound, but clearly this is a band who’s not willing to coast because the maturing in this band’s sound is obvious right off the get go.

Anyone familiar with Hello Beautiful’s previous catalog will notice that I Wanna Die Like This! is an evolutionary step for this band. The comfortable ska progressions and grooving walking basslines are far from neglected, but the new additions of rocking guitar riffs and beautiful piano progressions are the stand out performances in this album; it’s new and awesome but not so different that it will ostracize the current fanbase.

Right away the opening track, Black and White, tells the listener that the boys have added some new tricks to their repertoire as the track starts off with a rocking pop punk introduction before bouncing into the sweetly familiar swinging hip hop verses.

The album loses no momentum going into the second track, Heart Beats, with the boys rocking out while the lyrical integrity has only become stronger and more profound.

By all accounts, this is an album everyone needs to at least give a listen to, and then promptly log on to ITunes and purchase. With upbeat party tunes like Back Burner, fun poppy tracks like the criminally catchy Some Days and an assortment of touching pop rock ballads like Tick Tock to round it out into a very satisfying listening experience. The lyrics are truthful and relevant, and the music backing them demands the listeners’ attention; this is going to be an album that will be difficult to ignore, you have been warned.

I Wanna Die Like This! drops this summer, get some variety to your library and pick this album up.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to memorize their lyrics to sing along at their CD pre-release party.

I’m out