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Alternative PressThe Quilt expertly stitches together art and commerce. Every song has an insistent hook, but despite the high-profile hip-hop guests, nothing feels calculated. [Oct 2008, p.162]
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If it all seems messy, it isn't. GCH sounds like an American utopia, where everyone coexists joyfully and thrives on the diversity.
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Not all of the songs are in easy to digest radio play lengths either, as 'Live Forever (Fly With Me)' proves they aren't afraid to do a song that's over seven minutes long. The more that GHC take chances on this album, the more they succeed.
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Despite the band's best efforts, The Quilt isn't hip-hop; it's polished, radio-friendly pop.
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Dec 6, 2011Like their namesake, Quilt's music feels handmade and stitched-together, as though its creators were sifting through a collection of musical hand-me-downs and collating the bits that spoke to them into something new.
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Gym Class Heroes' Quilt is very, very much of its time: it skates by on the surface, which is appealing for a while, but in large doses it can seem like too much empty style.
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Mostly, though, they demonstrate that pop trumps piety.
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[McCoy's] delivery is laudably cool for a Warped Tour MC. But it’s gunk on the gears of this dancing machine.
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Though he stays within his comfort zone, frontman Travis McCoy is a gifted MC who usually upstages the rest of the band members, who sound like hired hands. And Daryl Hall sings on a track. That's gotta be worth something.
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The Quilt finds McCoy pouring out clunker couplets, lame boasts and odes to his lothario-level texting skills in a rap style embarrassingly modeled on Eminem's--without the wit.
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Even a guest verse from Busta Rhymes can't breathe any life into this copy-and-paste mess.