Search - East West :: Hope in Anguish

Awful......

Tom Green | Morristown, TN USA | 07/03/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"East West's "Hope In Anguish" is one of the worst CD's I have heard. Period. I listen to just about everything, but when a band abuses horrible power chords, bad drumming, and the stereotypical 'metal' voice with a bunch of 'dark' cliches, it just makes for bad music. This album just doesn't cut it, and it's enough to make me steer clear of the rest of their stuff."

Confused

Anastasia Beaverhausen | Indiana | 07/20/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I just got my CD in the mail today and I'm actually not sure what to say. I listened to it all the way through and it's so different from the first. I was expecting in your face screaming, and it's more mellow. Also, I didn't understand the lyrics to most of the songs. They are SO random. I'm not disappointed, I liked a few songs, but it's not my favorite."

COOL! - here are some meanings I get out of the songs...

aurorachica | USA | 02/18/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I really liked this album, although they could have improved on some of the slow songs here and there. I realy loved East West's first album I must say. Do not misjudge the lyrics though. In the song "Murderer" you may be hearing violent lyrics, but keep in mind it's not "literally" in the view of the singer...but in the view of a "Murderer" which is why it's called "Murderer" and it illustrates the emptiness and perhaps helplessness those type of people sink into. Because Murderers are still people too and I think that song shows an extremely interesting and different point of view of how a Murderer feels so many mixed emotions. An example from the song is near the end they sing "Nothing Breathes inside... Nothing Lives inside..." as the song fades out.



The 1st song "Vacant" is representing an example of a mistake/sin that grows and gets larger and reaps into a result of chaos: "Feed a lie, Watch it birth, Kiss the Dirt"



"Brutally Wrong" is something that's harder for me to interperet however - what sticks out most in the lyrics is "What could you ever gain...?" - "...Brutally Wrong it's all a game."



If your really really really liked their first album, you may also like this one, however you may like their first one better because it's "Pure EastWest Coolness" - but for me there wasn't that much in this album to dissapoint me. I just think for some of the slow songs they could have tweaked them a little better.

But overall it's a good album."