Album Review: Abandon All Ships - Geeving

The combination of hardcore and electronic elements is a challenging one, some bands manage to pull it off (see Enter Shikari) and some don't (Attack! Attack!). Unfortunately Toronto, Ontario's Abandon All Ships fall into the latter. Their début full-length, 'Geeving' traps itself by falling into occasional cliches that are all too familiar within the electo-hardcore genre, as the opening poorly-title 'Bro My God' shows; pounding drums, auto-tuned vocals and chugging guitars.

The title track soon follows with a catchy melody that you helplessly enjoy, despite it being soured in electronic beeps and auto-tune vocals. Whilst lyrically its pretty generic and the awful inclusion of "We don't give a fuck, we just came to party" is the pick of the bunch.