Track one is called Fire Fire, and it is a great way to start the album. The lyrics are great, the music starts slow, but rocks, it's an all around great song. It really makes you wish Lacey had stayed. Already better than much of Memento Mori.
Track two is the title track, and sadly, it isn't that great. I almost thought it wasn't Flyleaf when I first heard it, because there's barely any example of Lacey's powerful loud voice, and no examples of her gritty rocker voice. The lyrics are good, but the music just isn't, so they cancel out. It sadly doesn't live up to the rest of the album, and it seems like while the good songs make you wish she had stayed, the bad ones make you wish she could have a chance at title track redemption.
Track three is called Call You Out, and it is a perfect example of a gritty rock song by Flyeaf. It's loud, it's fast, it's in your face, reminiscent of I'm So Sick, or more so Chasm, almost to a point of eerie similarity. This song more than makes up for the last track, and for those of you hoping for a kick-ass rock song from Flyleaf for the last Lacy album, this is perfect.
Track four is called Cage On The Ground, and it's a very emotional song, that displays Lacey's powerful voice perfectly (though, perhaps not as perfectly as Arise). There are more songs like this featuring Lacey's powerful voice, but this is one of those that you can feel the emotion, from Lacey's voice alone. I can't imagine how awesome it would've been to see her sing this live (for those of you wondering, Flyleaf's live show kicks ass).
Track five is called Great Love, and it starts out emotional with rocking music, but immediately slows down, to a verse that in my opinion, doesn't fit with the chorus. There's almost no transition between a boring verse and a kick-ass chorus. I like it, but it's nothing compared to the next track.
Track six is called Bury Your Heart, and it is possibly my favorite song on the album. It starts off slow, and then rocks. The lyrics are great, and this is one of the great emotional songs Lacey does, despite not using her voice to it's full power. It is a fantastic song, and I personally wish this were the first single.
Track seven is called Freedom, and it starts off rocking and only gets better. This is an example of emotion and gritty rock, in perfect harmony. The lyrics are great, but I'd expect nothing less from Flyleaf. The entire song is very well done, and this is another song I'd love to have seen done live. Also this is the first time in a long time Lacey has screamed on a song (as she did in I'm So Sick and Cassie).
Track eight is called Saving Grace, and it is another perfect example of emotion in Lacey's vocals. Now Flyleaf's lyrics are almost always great, but these ones in particular, were fantastic. The music fits perfectly throughout the entire song. At one point though, Lacey's voice gets a lot lower for the bridge, and it was weird.
Track nine is called Stand, and while this was a softer song, this was done right, the music actually fit the vocals. I'm not gonna keep saying how great the lyric were, because Flyleaf's lyrics are almost always great. If New Horizons were done more like this, I'd probably like it more (the song New Horizons is kinda growing on me though). I think it ends to soon though.
Track ten is called Green Heart and while I like the loud rocking song among the emotional songs, this song does not fit on an album called New Horizons. This fits more on Memento Mori than on this. I'm just glad it was a short as it was, so I didn't have to sit through more than almost 3 minutes of it. It's not that I didn't like it, it's that it didn't fit on this album, at all.
Track eleven, and the final track, is called Broken Wings, and this ending may not be what the fans wanted, but it fits perfectly with the tone of this album, and on an album called New Horizons. The song starts out slow, but I almost didn't expect it to build up and rock the way it did. It rocked without making itself too out of place on this album. It fits the tone, Lacey's voice emotional throughout, instrumentals rock, lyrics, you know. A great end for the album that this is.
Overall New Horizons was great. Better than Memento Mori. Not better than the first album though. I noticed a lot of short songs, and at first I almost wished they had given Lacey more of a finale, considering this is her final Flyleaf album, but when they were making the album, they couldn't have known she was gonna leave. She couldn't have known she was gonna leave. It just happened, and New Horizons was what we got (There is the iTunes bonus track, but I don't have that version). The new singer is Kristen May, and no, he name is not a sentence fragment. She is the former singer of Vedera, and is now singing for Flyleaf. I'm gonna put it this way. When Tarja left Nightwish, I bought Dark Passion Play, and it was just okay. So I gave the new singer a second chance, and the most recent Nightwish album, Imaginaerum, kicked ass. So I am giving Kristen May two chanced not to screw up Flyleaf forever. Although what I really wish they would do is release a new single so the fans can get a taste of Kristen May Flyeaf (no that is not a sentence).
Well, that's a wrap, tune in next time when I review Green Day's album Dos, will it be as awesome as Uno, we'll see. That's it, but first, it's time for another edition of, "That's the replacement?!?"
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