{"id":4135,"date":"2014-02-23T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4135"},"modified":"2014-02-23T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T15:04:56","slug":"get-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4135","title":{"rendered":"Get Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s this band that I’ve been following for a while, We Are The In Crowd. They’re another pop-punk group, which is apparently my current thing. Anyway, I got their first album, Best Intentions<\/em>,\u00a0some time last year and thought it was pretty rad. Truth be told though, I dug their EP, Guaranteed to Disagree<\/em>, even more.<\/p>\n

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Weird Kids<\/em> is their second studio album, which just released last Tuesday. First thing I did when I woke up that morning was to boot up iTunes and get that sucker downloading. It’s not too often that I pay enough attention to the music world to get really excited about an upcoming album, but I was almost unreasonably hyped for Weird Kids<\/em>. In the weeks leading up to its release, I\u00a0found myself constantly checking iTunes to see if it was out yet even though I was well aware of the release date.<\/p>\n

And I guess that’s really the best thing I can say about social media. I kind of hate it in general, but I do appreciate how easy social media makes it to keep abreast of what my favourite bands are working on. I kept seeing WATIC on my Facebook feed promoting Weird Kids<\/em>, and it absolutely worked on me. Twitter is still a horrible mess of stupid, meaningless garbage posts, though.<\/p>\n

Back to the album in question, Weird Kids<\/em> is absolutely the\u00a0ideal sophomore album. A little deeper, a little rougher, a little more varied. I could probably say all the same nice things about it that I said about Tonight Alive’s The Other Side<\/em> last year<\/a>. There’s a notable amount of growth on display here, and I really love the direction that WATIC went with it. It’s got much less of a pop vibe than their previous works, and veers more towards\u00a0a punk\/alternative style. At the very least, it’s a more refined kind of pop, working hard not to be mindless radio trash.<\/p>\n

If I had to knock it for one thing, it’s that there’s way less back-and-forth between Tay and Jordan’s vocals than\u00a0in their previous works. It’s one of the things that really defined WATIC to me, so I miss it, but Tay is definitely a stong enough singer to carry the bulk of the vocal work on her own.<\/p>\n

I won’t bother to give “detailed” breakdowns of songs or anything, because I’m pretty terrible at that. I will say that I’m super happy with Weird Kids. <\/em>Like Tonight Alive and Go Radio, We Are The In Crowd is one of those bands that I’m really into that nobody I know has ever heard of, so I’m making it my mission to spread the word as much as I can. So here, have a music video.<\/p>\n