AMERICA- Thirty Seconds To Mars Review
Thirty Seconds To Mars has certainly been changing. They started off as a very heavy band, full of guitar riffs and muscle, and know they make songs that sometimes have almost no instruments in them, purely synths and loops and drums. They started off this album quite awhile ago, with the singles Walk On Water and Dangerous Night, which both became medium sized hits but didn't go a tremendous distance. Like always, this album is characterized by grandiose hard hitting tracks of a medium speed with all the trappings of 2010s arena rock, but this time without as much pure heavy guitar and more modern electronic drums and keyboards. It's interesting to see a classic 30 STM chorus break down to the frantic off kilter sampling of modern dance pop, and the stripping down of their sound works well sometimes. keyword sometimes- in some cases they just turn it back to their old style, putting so many tracks in your head hurts and you feel like the song's closing in on you, and somet...