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Fiance - Please, Ambitious, Please

Reviews - Music Mini

Written by Keely Weiss

Monday, 05 May 2008

If you're from Denver, maybe you've heard of Fiance. Or maybe you haven't. Fiance is a Denver-based band whose modern mainstream pop-rock (complete with the genre's requisite whiny vocals) is the sort one hears too often.

They are, for the most part, not anything particularly special with their melodies, nor their instrumentals. All-in-all, they would just be another completely unremarkable and rather annoying "sensitive" band were it not for one caveat: Patrick McGuire knows how to write a lyric.

Fiance exhibits their superior songwriting skills on such tracks as "Pretty Model's Hands", an otherwise overly ordinary and even bothersome ballad whose lyrics elevate it to the status of "actually a pretty good song". A couple of the songs are even enjoyable without the aid of their words. "Super-Soft Knife" is absolutely infectious and "I Don't Want You Anymore" is an upbeat anthem with a brilliant piano part.

As a band Fiance is bland and lacking. Despite this, however, they are capable of producing some great attention-worthy ditties. Go forth and investigate... but do so for the crown jewels in their repertoire rather than for their music as a whole.

This Reviewer's Rating: 2.5 / 5

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