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SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS CD REVIEW

AFTER DARK - SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS CD REVIEW

This band's name, SCARY KIDS SCARING KIDS sounds rather Halloween-ish and the CD cover art, a picture of a man tearing the skin off his face, just reinforces it. However, before I turn into my 'mother' I have to remember that when I first came across this band, it was at the end of their set, and the crowd was all sweaty, so no one tore their face off on stage. I guess the band just 'blew everyone's face right off'. The CD is released by Hourzero Records out of Arizona and produced by Bob Hoag, who seems to be the '6th man' in this five piece band, because he is co-writer of all the songs and also performs background vocals. The six song CD, featuring Tyson Stevens (vocals,bass), Chad Crawford (guitar), DJ Wilson (guitar), Steve Kirby (guitar), Pouyan Afkary (keyboards), and Peter Costa (drums), contains music that isn't scary though there is screaming. The songs have a clean beat and nice guitar work as they pursue a path somewhere between power ballad, screammo, and power pop in the land of alternative rock. The lyrical poetry laid down on top of the music is youthfully abstract and themes on the shards a relationship can produce are brought forth by the strong tenor voice of Tyson Stevens. - PT ROTHSCHILD