Hellogoodbye - Everything Is Debatable

Band: Hellogoodbye
Album: Everything Is Debatable
Release Date: 10/29/13


Rating - ★★★★☆

It is quite remarkable how quickly Hellogoodbye’s sound has changed since its first release back in 2004. In its third studio album, Everything Is Debatable, the band returns to its roots characterized by solitary revelations of the dark realities of love that were heard throughout their second album entitled Would It Kill You?

Just Don’t is an ear-pleasing tune that continues on the album’s common theme of “groovyness” and uses a balanced amount of both electronic filler and instrument use to create a perfected example of dance music. The guitar heard around the last 40 seconds of the song shows that dance music in today’s world does not only have to be produced from, solely, electronic machines.

Half of the song I Don’t Worry (As Much As I Should) showcases lead singer Forrest Kline’s voice alongside a piano in a song that doesn’t have him somewhat drowned out by beats or instruments.

After an overkill of auto-tune and electronic sounds killed Hellogoodbye’s debut album, the band seemed arguably downright scared to use electronic sound and were determined to limit it in Would It Kill You? On the other hand, in Everything Is Debatable, Kline and friends put an album out that once again brought back many aspects of the electronic filler. But the use of instruments was still very prevalent. The mesh between the two styles worked this time out. Hellogoodbye has put out a record that mixes the use electronic beats and instruments better than anyone else has so far this year.

Best song on the album: Just Don’t

Best album lyric: “It seems better not to know. Die young, die dumb; not soon.”

-Joey