White Lies
`White Lies', the new album by LoveHateHero, is not only a  departure point for this young band, but in time, might well prove to be a  departure point for the entire post-hardcore music scene.  Over twelve  songs, the band delivers what can only be described as the most hook laden  post-hardcore tunes you have ever heard. This album will mark  LoveHateHero's territory in the young new scene that is bubbling up in the  wake of bands like Taking Back Sunday and Thursday. Their combination of  pop-sensibility and stylistic toughness is unprecedented, resulting in an  entirely memorable album, with songs you will find in your head for days  and nights to come. This is not an exercise in deconstruction of song  structure, or a spastic reinterpretation of the styles and phrasing that  has come before them. Rather, the band focuses on delivering real `songs'  in their own style - artfully arranged post-hardcore parts and metal-laced  riffs, with melodies and choruses that are downright anthemic. Some of the  elements will ring familiar - an early-Thrice sounding riff, Underoath  inspired breakdowns, maybe a little My Chem dramatic sway in the chorus.  But with this band, there is no sacrificing the payoff that's hardwired  into each one their songs. Every tune hits the point where Pierrick  Berube's voice launches the listener into that special place - of  satisfaction, understanding, emotional lift. LoveHateHero will not abandon  their listeners to dig for meaning or coherence out in their songs, they  deliver it right to them.Like with every growing young band between albums, there are palpable  changes. The addition of young guns Myke Russell and Kevin Gruft on guitar,  add not only a level of competence and metal-style execution, but Kevin's  leads take the band to a new technical level that's both exciting and  inspiring. Drummer Scot Gee brings the heat on the drums, taking cues from  favorites DC of Tool and JT of the Mars Volta, he embellishes the songs  with jazz inspired time signatures and a broad range of styles - from disco  hi-hats in verses to galloping double-bass. Paris Bosserman returns on the  bass, holding down the foundation, beating and sliding through the songs,  and adding something new with his voice on this album, complimenting the  lead vocals with some surprising high parts.This record, we hear more revealing tales of personal life, love and lost  cause, but Pierrick's lyrics also take the listener inside the van. We get  to experience, in his first hand accounts, the highs and lows of living in  a band - the resulting overexposure of ones self, the departure of former  friends and band members, the snap judgment of others, the hopeless  situations and glorious highs, all there for the listener to take in. These  are the words of young men grown through two years on the road, times of  trial and judgment, and revelation. A little older and wiser, now able to  see through the "White Lies" of naÃ¯ve promise and automatic fulfillment,  the band has composed a dramatic and exciting record of their own life and  times for the listener to join in on and enjoy the bumpy, but thrilling,  ride.Myke Russell - Guitar Scot Gee - Drums Pierrick Berube -  Vocals Paris Bosserman - Bass Kevin Gruft - Guitar