The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give (02/07/2012)
The Ghost Inside’s third studio album, Get What You Give, is their first release on Epitaph records. The album sees them branching into stronger melodies and cleaner vocals without flattening their hardcore style. They’ve taken cues from some of the biggest names in rock, hardcore and pop-punk genres, working their own adaptation of these styles into the album. Despite the strong similarities to bands including Bring Me The Horizon, Architects and in moments Linkin Park, You Get What You Want has maintained its own place in a hardcore line up.
The beauty of this album is in the distinctiveness of each track. While they all seem familiar to everything else we have heard from the hardcore scene over the last few years, Get What You Give brings a unique edge to the genre. And with two full length albums behind them, The Ghost Inside has taken the opportunity to push themselves and branch out into a cleaner and more melodic style on some of their tracks.
Opening the driving force of the drums and Jonathan Vigil’s bellowing vocals, This Is What I Know About Sacrifice really sets the intensity of the rest of the album. The song starts off with a high-octane breakdown that comes in after only two lines of Vigil’s words and lets listeners know that for this band, there is no warm up track, there is only full-force from the first second to the last note. The following track, Outlive, continues the heavy notes and full energy that settles listeners into the album. These tracks play as rather straightforward carryovers of their earlier albums, but anyone who thinks they are in for another album of same old The Ghost Inside is in for a shock.
Engine 45 sets the tone of the band’s newer sound with perhaps the most radio friendly track on the album. This song sees The Ghost Inside embracing a slower tempo along with a simple melody (at least in comparison to their other songs) and cleaner vocals. Despite being a little out of depth on this album, Engine 45 sits as pleasant respite from the force of the surrounding tracks.
Heading back into their heavier style, Slipping Away manages to stand apart from an album full of similar sounds with a standout guitar melody. The track creates an enthralling contrast between the melodic and heavier moments throughout the song. Another of the most captivating tracks, White Light, is an unexpected but haunting track. With the slow drum roll and clean guitar opening, the track swells to the force of the whole band and Vigil’s emotionally powered lyrics to carry the song to a spine tingling climax.
Overall this album has been an interesting journey through the motivational, if somewhat morose, lyrics telling of life, death and the moments in between. The unique moments of each track along with the maintained hardcore edge, allows for the album to play as a whole as well as each track standing out on their own.
Bethany Williams
The beauty of this album is in the distinctiveness of each track. While they all seem familiar to everything else we have heard from the hardcore scene over the last few years, Get What You Give brings a unique edge to the genre. And with two full length albums behind them, The Ghost Inside has taken the opportunity to push themselves and branch out into a cleaner and more melodic style on some of their tracks.
Opening the driving force of the drums and Jonathan Vigil’s bellowing vocals, This Is What I Know About Sacrifice really sets the intensity of the rest of the album. The song starts off with a high-octane breakdown that comes in after only two lines of Vigil’s words and lets listeners know that for this band, there is no warm up track, there is only full-force from the first second to the last note. The following track, Outlive, continues the heavy notes and full energy that settles listeners into the album. These tracks play as rather straightforward carryovers of their earlier albums, but anyone who thinks they are in for another album of same old The Ghost Inside is in for a shock.
Engine 45 sets the tone of the band’s newer sound with perhaps the most radio friendly track on the album. This song sees The Ghost Inside embracing a slower tempo along with a simple melody (at least in comparison to their other songs) and cleaner vocals. Despite being a little out of depth on this album, Engine 45 sits as pleasant respite from the force of the surrounding tracks.
Heading back into their heavier style, Slipping Away manages to stand apart from an album full of similar sounds with a standout guitar melody. The track creates an enthralling contrast between the melodic and heavier moments throughout the song. Another of the most captivating tracks, White Light, is an unexpected but haunting track. With the slow drum roll and clean guitar opening, the track swells to the force of the whole band and Vigil’s emotionally powered lyrics to carry the song to a spine tingling climax.
Overall this album has been an interesting journey through the motivational, if somewhat morose, lyrics telling of life, death and the moments in between. The unique moments of each track along with the maintained hardcore edge, allows for the album to play as a whole as well as each track standing out on their own.
Bethany Williams