Valencia - We all need a reason to believe

Columbia Records . release date: 08/26/2008 . written by Oliver . genre: Emo/ Rock

I read a lot of interesting reviews about Valencia´s somophore release "We all need a reason to believe" on the internet. Amazingly some people tend to call the band Pop Rockers, others call them just a over-produced band. I cannot agree with that, when I listen to Valencia´s major label debut. To me Valencia´s music sound like the most wonderful and emotional Rock music that has appeared on the market, since a very long time. Whenever I listen to their beautiful release I find parallels to bands like The Format, Jimmy Eat World, Acceptance and Spitalfield. I guess those bands can pretty good reflect, what Valencia sounds like. Their new major label effort contains eleven beautiful Rock tracks, pretty much in the vein of the just now listed bands. Ariel Rechtshaid who already worked with The Plain White T´s or We Are Scientists did a real great job on this catchy record, which sounds really so flawless in my ears. The basslines have turned out huge, the drums are sounding gleamy, the guitars are harsh and edgie together. Ariel Rechtshaid definitely focussed on the singers voice and made it sound so special and pleasant. To me Valencia has really created a fantastic major label debut with amazing choruses and very dreamily and beautiful melodies on. I really love the fact, that the whole band is escorting the singers vocals while they are singing from the back on almost every refrain. The songs got kept in a mid tempo manner and so you won´t find any boring ballards or fast songs. I tried to find out the most outstanding track on the record; but I can not. To me the whole album has really worked out fine and I am sure, it may become a classic one in the Emo/Rock genre.

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Rank: (5 out of 5)

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