Album Review

The Audition
Champion



It’s always interesting to see the result of different mainstream genres beginning to co-mingle, creating a familiar sound for the listener. When listening to The Audition’s new release Champion, their second with Victory Records, I first heard a distinct influence of a band like AFI, with high powered guitars and vocals to match.
As I continued to listen to the album the vocals, filled with so much raw emotional you begin to feel like you should ring it out into a bucket. This causes one to wonder what kind of emotional 2x4 the singer was beaten with, and gives The Used a run for their “angsty” money.
Overlay these influences to a foundation of pop punk and polish it to gloss that would rival mom’s Christmas ham, and you begin to see where The Audition is coming from. They’re not reinventing the wheel with this album; what they do bring is a highly polished, easily accessible music that is sure to reached a targeted audience.

Posted by
Matthew Byrd