Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Lonely Road reviews
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| Billboard |
 These Florida-based emo-rock dudes broke out in 2006 with a rarity among their heartbreak-obsessed cohorts: an issue song. On "Face Down," big-voiced frontman Ronnie Winter sang about domestic abuse, and on the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' sophomore disc, he addresses a handful of other (relatively) heavy topics, including the unexpected profundity of a child's words and the importance of resisting peer pressure. Of course, straying from emo's typical lyrical terrain is less risky when it's accompanied by music that fulfills the genre's stylistic requirements as completely (and as satisfyingly) as the hooky, fuzz-encrusted tunes on "Lonely Road" do. This bittersweet pill is never difficult to swallow.—Mikael Wood...full text |
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| Boston |
| If you spend any time listening to modern rock radio, then you're no doubt familiar with "Face Down," the earnest anti-domestic-violence single from Florida's Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. But if you're like us, you never bothered to find out who the band behind it was; it could have been any of a thousand like-sounding acts. With its pop-punk harmonies, screaming breakdown, and soaring chorus, the song seemed more like a faceless commercial product of the millennial youth zeitgeist than the actual effort of real human beings. Which isn't to say generic can't necessarily be enjoyable. It is here. The band's legion of fans (some 50 million streamed the last album on MySpace) won't be disappointed by the 11 charged-up, emo-pop tracks on its second full-length, almost any of which would work just fine as the soundtrack to teenage movie stars making out in the rain in slow motion. When the band flirts with metal (albeit a highly polished version) as on "Pull Me Back" and "You Better Pray," it provokes more successfully than most of the ballads do. (Out tomorrow) LUKE O'NEIL...full text |
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| Rollingstones |
| "Sometimes, to do what's right/You must walk alone," sings Ronnie Winter on the third album from the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, a Florida quartet who quietly went platinum last time out. Winter goes for inspirational platitudes all over Lonely Road, which suits a band that thanks God in its liner notes. But despite a couple of winners — see the very catchy, Fall Out Boy-ish "Step Right Up" — little in RJA's tunes inspires. The band skips between emo pop and orchestral pomp while applying plenty of major-label gloss. The result: Much of the time the Jumpsuits end up sounding like a lesser version of Hawthorne Heights....full text |
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