Mae - Destination: Beautiful
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Free Music Notes for Destination: Beautiful
Free Music Review: ugh
Hit: 1 Stars
this is cookie-cutter emo. i can't believe all the raves this has been getting. don't you have to be over 13 to review an album on amazon? the music itself is relatively inoffensive - it's nothing new but at least it doesn't suck. then there's the lead singer who makes you want to slap him for whining so much.
if you've graduated high school you should not own this album.
Free Music Review: As much as I try, I can't get sick of it
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD totally blew me away (and still does). A friend got me into these guys a few months after this CD came out, and it quickly became one of my favorite discs. I saw them on a small tour they were headlining in DC, and then made the trip two months later to see them on the same tour again. Just amazing.This is one of the best-written CD's I've ever heard. The lyrics, though maybe corny (let's face it, most lyrics are), are still imaginative and great. The music backing up the vocals are what really get to me though. Quiet, lightly distorted guitar; interesting beats; background keyboards that add dimensions to the music. There's even a great variety of music on the disc, from the quiet Skyline Drive and Giving It Away to the harder This Time Is The Last Time and Summertime. My personal favorites are probably All Deliberate Speed and Last Call. It's so easy to just zone out and lose yourself in this music; I wish I could find more bands like this (Copeland and Matthew Good's disc Avalanche are as close as I've gotten), it's such a great style. Somewhat reserved, emo-ish, yet very musical, inventive, and awesome.
And just a note, these guys are AMAZING live. Like I said, I paid to see them twice on one tour. The music quality is as good(if not better) live as on the CD; the singer's voice is a little less soft in a live show; and though you might think it's hard for a band to totally rock out to tunes like this, these guys nail it. They did a pretty hot cover of the Beatles' A Day In The Life too, with Embers and Envelopes buried in the bridge. Very hot.
Check out www.whatismae.com and see them if you can, I highly recommend it.
Free Music Review: Excellent! Destination:Perfectly Beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
I didn't have any idea who this group was until a friend of mine had me listen to their CD. This group is awesome. If you are looking for some really good music this is the right CD for you. I really love tracks 1,4& 5 the most, 5 being the best. When you look at the reviews you can tell that most of the people are giving the right ratings. This group is really awesome!Free Music Review: Mae Put the 'Ma' In Amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
You cannot say enough good about Mae. Mae has relaxing, warm music. Listening to Mae is an indecribable pick me up in downtimes. It will mellow you out, and relax you. It sounds sincere and theraputic. It's kind of like a modernized Sunny Day Real Estate, except a million times better.Free Music Review: Well...
Hit: 3 Stars
Being cast in the lot of the multitudinous and varied group that is "emo" tells a person next to nothing about the disc, so i figure ill give you my take on Mae. I can't say its average, because its slightly above (3/5 seems right, though perhaps 3.5 would be more fitting...in other words, amazon ought to have a 10 point scale, or 7 at least), but it has no magic, no terrific feel. The lyrics could have been penned by anybody. They don't possess a unique greatness or individuality that you might find in Cursive, Bright Eyes, Death Cab, etc. That might trouble you less than me because I look for intelligence and craftsmanship when i listen to music and i appreciate that sort of thing. Many (perhaps most) dont, so their sonic qualities are obviously important to address as well. Again, I feel they lack something that is truly unique. Its relatively standard emo-pop-rock, though they are very catchy and they do hit the right notes. In the end it seems no more than a nice breeze, and I dont think thats what Mae was going for in the impact that Destination: Beautiful was to have.They have moments. But its the sort of music you play with your friends when you're really more concerned with them and what you guys as a group are doing than something to really get into and appreciate as some outstanding aesthetic achievement.