If Only You Were Lonely - Hawthorne Heights
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  • Summary: The big-selling indie emo band from Dayton, Ohio returns with a second album.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. The outfit's three-axe attack coupled with the distinctive pipes of J.T. Woodruff find Hawthorne Heights able to go where peers like Fall Out Boy just can't.
  2. On If Only You Were Lonely, Hawthorne Heights up the drama-punk ante, channeling tricky rhythms, shimmery soft parts and a metal-schooled three-ax attack into songs that are both action-packed and gratuitously stylized.
  3. Too many of the songs feel flat, despite the stormy guitars and stormier lyrics. [27 Feb 2006]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 31
  2. Negative: 13 out of 31
  1. emh
    10
    I luv this album sooooooo much my favorite album! the silence in black and white is amazing to. Hawthorne heights are the best band ever!!! my favorite song off this album is dead in the water, and this is who we are. i think this band is realy different from others and i just think they are the BEST BAND EVER oh and they were amazing when the played t the UK Leeds festival to :D Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. DustinP
    4
    Good sounding album great prodcution the 3 guitars sound huge, the drums are full and the bass is smooth. Great production value with lackluster songs. Listen to the singles and thats it. Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. AndyY
    3
    Painfully lackluster and self-absorbed. What emo album isn't, though?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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