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I Am Hollywood
Artist:
He Is Legend
Format: CD
New: Currently Unavailable New
Used: Currently Unavailable $0.00
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Formats and Editions
1. Seduction, The
2. Eating a Book
3. Creature Walks, The (End Scene)
4. Greatest Actor Alive, The (Enters Stage Right)
5. China White (End Scene)
6. Best in Mexico
7. Walls Have Teeth, The
8. You Think I'm Pretty
9. Dinner With a Gypsy
10. I Am Hollywood (Fin)
Reviews:
He Is Legend are every bit as commited to a single musical style as the puppets who helped win their "Seduction" video Headbanger's Ball rotation. Sure, I Am Hollywood boasts mosh pit fodder galore. But much of the North-Carolina based quintet's charm emanates from relentless shapeshifting and an organic command of novel juxtopositions that makes most of its peers seem like ADD-addled thrash-in-the-pans. The aforementioned opener finds the band mashing flash riffs and pop-punk exuberance up with Skynyrd-esque flourishes and shoegazer harmonics, as singer Schuylar Croom yelps, growls, screams and croons through an abduction scenario straight out of the Symbionese Liberation Army's wildest dreams. On "China White," Croom lets his inner Chris Martin run wild, breathily cooing "It's getting late/I'm coming home/I picked this rose for you" over chordage so unabashedly exotic, the song's Pink Floyd-meets-American Music Club middle bit seems perfectly natural. Gilding the lily admirably, producer (and Killswitch Engage guitarist) Adam Dutkiewicz imbues HIL's protean peregrinations with a surreal sheen worthy of David Lynch. Budget-minded vacation planners take note: I Am Hollywood is far less expensive than any theme park in America-and a heck of a lot sexier.
