Paramore - All We Know Is Falling

Reviewed on May 23, 2006 by mikey

The current trend for sugar-coated pop cunningly disguised as punkrock continues to gather pace, and I have sat on this Paramore CD for a while, wondering whether I would wake up one day and just get it. Because fuck knows I really, really don’t. Short of Girls Aloud’s CD making it’s way over to Europunk for review, I really can’t think of anything that I get to review being closer to pop music for 12 year old girls than this.

Yes, it’s perfectly executed stuff. Maybe shades of Save Ferris about the vocals. And there are just enough distorted guitars and palm muting for the label to be able to fool people into thinking that they are scratching the surface with this band, but it is superficial stuff. By the third of fourth track there is nothing left of Paramore to greet my imagination with anything more than a tired glance and a bundle of recycled, watered down Good Charlotte tunes.

Take Panic! At the disco, take away the quirky keyboard parts and swap the charismatic singer for a woman with much less charisma, and you have Paramore. The same organization are responsible for both bands, and they are making a fucking fortune from it. But don’t let them fool you kids. There are a million and one finer bands than this lot around right now, sparring for your attention. Go see them. Kill off these cynical bastards one record at a time.

Album Information

Medium/Type:Full-Length
Released:April 24th, 2006
Record Label:Fueled By Ramen

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Tracklisting

  1. All We Know
  2. Pressure
  3. Emergency
  4. Brighter
  5. Here We Go Again
  6. Never Let This Go
  7. Whoa
  8. Conspiracy
  9. Franklin
  10. My Heart