Artist: Lorene Drive
Album: Romantic Wealth
Label: Lobster Records
Tracks: 10
Length: 37:14
Review by: John Durkee

Pop metal, screamo, mallcore or whatever you want to call the genre has been dying from copycats and banality for quite some time. The body has lost its pulse, he’s stopped breathing, and he’s loosing the rest of his vitals. The only thing that can save this dying genre is an electric shock of originality. Sadly, Lorene Drive only continues and furthers the deadly cancer of predictability that is killing the pop metal (screamo, mallcore) genre.

Sure, Lorene Drive can write some familiar sounding songs, have a catchy chorus here and there, a cool riff and a faux heavy breakdown, but in the end, there the 2645636th band to do it. They may not be as bad as others, but they’re also worse than many. They are the lukewarm medium, mediocrity. To mention a particular song and break it down is to describe about any one of the songs. They all have the Fall Out Boy styled clean vocals, “cathartic” screams and hollers, the “killer breakdowns,” and catchy, but inevitable chorus.

If you’re a fan of this dying genre that’s beginning to rot in the mire of its own stench, then pick this record up.