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Love Hate Masquerade
Kids in the Way
Love Hate Masquerade
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
 
  •  Track Listings (11) - Disc #1

Give us your tired, your poor, your pubescent and pretentious screamo lightweights seriously, hand them over. We know they re boring you. In exchange, we offer Kids in the Way, a relentlessly hooky Indianapolis quartet ino...  more »

     
   
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All Artists: Kids in the Way
Title: Love Hate Masquerade
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 2
Label: Flicker Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 9/18/2007
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
Style: Indie & Lo-Fi
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 083061084929

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Give us your tired, your poor, your pubescent and pretentious screamo lightweights seriously, hand them over. We know they re boring you. In exchange, we offer Kids in the Way, a relentlessly hooky Indianapolis quartet inoculated against the hissyfit plague infecting so many of their peers. Their third full-length, A Love Hate Masquerade, is a throwback testament to earnest, rogue, stripped-down rock and roll, and it couldn t come at a better time. The new school has failed Kids in the Way have the conch, and they re not planning to let go.

The album title kinda sums it up, says guitarist Nate Ehman. It s basically about good and bad relationships and the way we hide the bad to make it look good. I would say the theme is definitely very romantic... and the opposite of that.

Love and hate are obviously polar ends of the emotional spectrum. Frontman Dave Pelsue drags himself from end to end on this record and, somehow, beyond. At various points on Masquerade he both despises himself for self-destructive infatuations ( My Little Nightmare ) and delights in indulging them ( Sugar ). He invents a variety of plainspoken, expressive characters struggling to find their footing in the whirlwind, and while he declines to detail specifics, one can guess the real man is uncomfortably wandering somewhere between them all, fighting every day to see through the darkness.

Basically the record is about realizing that you re in a state of self destruction and hopefully finding your way out of that, Pelsue says. It s like you re in a relationship and you know it s not gonna work out for either of you, but you re at a point where you don t want to start over so you re just kind of hanging onto whatever emotions are still existing.

Every track on A Love Hate Masquerade is a hit waiting to be discovered, bursting with honesty and passion. All it took was the perfect convergence of four distinct if occasionally frozen voices.

We wanted to make a record where you can hear the personality of each of us really well, summarizes Ehman, simply. It s not strings and keyboards. It s just us. It s exactly what we do.
 

CD Reviews

Fallout in the Way
a musician | 09/29/2007
(3 out of 5 stars)

"Let me say first off (as a little background), I think Apperations of Melody was a fantastic album. That said, I move on.



"Love Hate..." is rediculously catchy, pop-punky, sing-alongable, and entirelly dissapointing. There doesn't seem to be any track on the album (besides "fiction" which was released on the special edition Apperations of Melody) that sounds like the distinct, orignal Kids in the Way that we knew before. Instead we get - Fall Out Boy (or Fallout in the Way, as I shall be refering to them from now on).



IF you like modern pop-punk like Fallout Boy, then "Love Hate..." will fit your fancy quite well. However, this album fails to capture the raw emotion of David's voice and songwriting as it did in past efforts. Choruses are filled with "who-oh's" and "yea-eh's", and David's voice rarely fades into his signiture scream. Indeed, for the first few tracks his voice, which on their previous two albums (especially Appirations) was very distinct and original, could not be told apart from dozens of other bands in the genre. To me, this was dissapointing. To you, it might not be.



A solid, catchy record it may be, but Kids in- rather, Fallout in the Way may have lost a fan with this album. I hope to be proven wrong..."