Nella Vita

I love this band is amazing and songs are dope

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a Grayscale hater. I’ve got Adornment on vinyl in my living room, so I was genuinely looking forward to this album. Having said that, I can’t say this is anything groundbreaking. It sounds just like “Proper Dose” by The Story So Far, just released a year later.

Grayscale you need to calm down with all this great music 😂 I love this album,it’s different from what you’ve made in the past but it doesn’t take away from who you guys are and these lyrics are so raw and emotion I feel what you are singing,it’s more poppier than your other album but honestly that doesn’t bother me, instead of wanting to head bang all the album through,I wanna dance and just the theme of this album,it’s a sad topic but instead of grieving over it you celebrate and that speaks volumes,I love this album and I love grayscale

Loved their last album but this new one (so far) sounds different BUT in a good way IMHO. Why? Because I’m a sucker for this pop progression they’re heading to. I just hope they don’t over saturate themselves in this sound where it sounds they’re not even playing their instruments anymore. Nevertheless, I think I’ll be enjoying the rest of this album when it comes out.

I’ll admit it; I’m one of those almost-30-year-olds that still listens to the same albums I did in high school because pop punk as we knew it then is mostly dead today. FOB sold out a long time ago, Yellowcard’s gone, as is The Starting Line and so many other legends of the 2000’s. So I started scouting the web to prove myself wrong. Maybe pop punk hadn’t died; it just wasn’t getting the radio exposure it once did. What I found was a new generation of pop punk rockers who had picked up their guitars and decided to do the most punk thing ever: make great music that didn’t have the electronic undertones and drum machines that most popular music has today. I found bands that still played instruments and were fantastic at doing it. Out of all of them, Grayscale is/was my absolute favorite. These guys have awesome musical progressions, great vocals, relatable lyrics — everything you could hope for in a pop punk band. I played Adornment on repeat for months; I love that record. So when Grayscale’s new album went up for preorder, I signed up immediately. Then I started to listen to the available songs. I don’t want to tear you guys down. You’re an awesome band, and your skills are solid, but I can’t help but notice a theme with this record that wasn’t on the previous ones: Hollow, electronic sounds are starting to creep into your tracks, almost like some modern music plague that bands today simply don’t know how to cure. It just keeps spreading until the drummer is tapping on an electronic drum machine, the once-legendary guitarist is stabbing keys on a synth keyboard, and all the raw energy of distorted guitars and spirited drum fills have been distilled down into another soulless boy band. I really hope the invading electronic instruments aren’t a sign of things to come. I really hope you don’t pull a Fall Out Boy and completely dismantle the sound that made you important to rock music. I really hope you don’t become just another band that used to be great but sold out to do what everyone else was doing. I’m not sure how many people there are – people like me who crave real rock ‘n’ roll – but we’re counting on you, and bands like yours, to keep the best music of our generations alive. Most bands have abandoned us; I really hope you’re not one of them.