Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

Before I get into this let me just say: FORGET THE WORD EMO! I don't know where that term came from to describe so many bands out there but lets set the record straight right here: Emo is not depression. Emo is not wearing black. Emo is not hurting yourself.

With that said, lets look at another nail in the coffin of modern "emo". My Chemical Romance have been herald as emo poster boys. They took the guy liner, I'm not ok, life sucks image and just blew it away with a 1950s sci-fi ray gun. Their newest album "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" (Here on out simply called Danger Days). They brough a new look and a new sound. All the blacks and reds that people associate with the band are out and bright primary colours are in but more importantly the sound is a total turn around. My Chemical Romance have been progressively getting more and more produced. Which isn't always a bad thing. But they started as a rough garage band and that's where the band sounds strongest, a little rough around the edges. Danger Days goes back to that rawer sound. The songs on the album are well constructed. "Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)", the albums first single, is one of the catchiest songs I have ever heard. You listen to it once and you're humming it for days. The track "Party Poison" is one of those tracks that just makes you want to throw a blowout at your parent's house while they're out of town. The song "The Only Hope for Me Is You" sounds like an old Shiny Toy Guns song, which is a new and exciting sound for My Chemical Romance to be exploring. The addition of interludes from the mysterious DJ Dr. Death Defying round off the album with a loose conceptual base.

This album is a great buy for any rock and roll lovers. If your a die hard old school My Chemical Romance fan then this album may take some getting use to but give it a chance, it will make the rest of your My Chemical Romance discography useless.