City In The Clouds - The Contents Of Box 212
Whenever an artist or band takes the likes to the rap,
hip hop, genre it could work in their favor or it could not work out if at all.
For Clouds In The City with their album "The Contents Of Box 212",
consisting of 12-tracks, it takes two of those tracks with guest appearances by
artists RJ Paige on "Shower Thoughts", and Mak Twain on "Out To
Lunch". Each of these tracks on their own by themselves sound alright for
what they are but they are just not right for this release. If these guest
appearances and these genres choices for these two song selections was removed
the album would live up to its namesake more so without these tracks needing to
sound the way they do. It just throws the album off as it were really.
The rest of the album and its assorted tracks like
"Singin", "Down To Earth", "Shine", and "To
The Sky", are what make this release stand out the most. Like "To The
Sky", really embraces the other genres this band picked out like
alternative, indie, punk, and rock, this song picks up pieces from those genres
to make the track work so well. While the other tracks mentioned like "Shine",
bring out this tone to the album that is just pure entertainment. It portrays
this essence of music that makes it sound like there is pure magic in the
mists. It has that melody of trace that makes it drive the music more so really
giving the listener an experience of sorts. While the other tracks
"Singin", and "Down To Earth", keep the pace a float by
going different and unique. Like you know interesting to say the least, it has
the music being creative for itself. Allowing for the vocal chords and
instrumentals to come out of their shells exposing themselves more so, that the
music becomes more alluring to the ears in question.
As far as the band goes that is City In The Clouds,
they give off this early essence of the likes of Hoobastank meets perhaps
Interpol. That is the vibe that they give off the most with their music genre
interests and style choice with music creation. As for the album "The
Contents of Box 212", it is a release that has a hit or miss aspect going
for it. While those two tracks of the rap, hip hop genres do not tend to cut
it, the others come in just fine, sounding daring yet decent.
Overall though, it's just another one of those bands
with an album to their name. It is a nice release with a decent amount of
effort and tunes worthy of a listen at least once through. If their material is
not to your liking then this may not be the right band for you. If you find
yourselves questioning as to why you cannot get into this particular band, then
you may just be over thinking it more than it needs to be thought about.
Heather Savage
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