Album Review!

The Bunny The Bear - If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say...

Mixing brutal Buffalo hardcore music with dance/electronica, The Bunny The Bear loves to be hated \m/  Think what you want, I think they're fantastic.  Their debut album on Victory Records 'If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say' starts off by jumping directly for the throat.  'Prelude To Pregnancy' sweeps in with some sweet synth, guitars, hi-hat filled drum tracks, and some incredible screaming work.  Yes, it's a generic synth break intro..but you can't help but love this one in particular.  Jumps from that into a previously released song 'Asile' which brings in The Bear's intoxicating voice work.  Big bad bear with the voice of a motherfucking angel.  'The Asile' is a very good example of what TBTB is all about.

If you're still with it after the first two tracks, stay aboard for a fun little musical ride.  'Ocean Floor' is one of their newer songs.  It's fantastic.  1:17 into the song and you'll witness a bit of dancecore...i made that up just now.  Nice use of reverb and electronic effects on the track.  It's prominent, but not overpowering.  It fits in perfect with the song and nothing feels out of place, this pretty much carries on throughout the entire album luckily.  Everything feels right.  It's experimental by nature, but that doesn't mean they just threw a bunch of things together and added pro-tools magic.  There's a lot of very cool things going on here.

'It's A Long Way From The Esophagus To The Ovaries' (oh rly?) has one VERY catchy chorus.  The melody is mesmerizing, and the percussion thuds to a very danceable beat.  I'm positive that throughout the rest of this band's career we will hear a lot of songs like this one.   'Lust Touch Seed' follows suit, this one's an older one of their's re-done for the debut album.  The synth riff that starts the song, carries on, and morphs throughout the song is simply perfect.  You will be hearing that in your head for days, not a bad thing by any means.

This is not a perfect album.  The songs need a little better structure and direction but that's simply constructive criticism, because i've heard this band grow from what they were years ago, to what they are now and i can tell you if you like this effort, their best is yet to come.  To judge for yourself, check out the rest of the songs on the album as well because i could go on for an hour on these guys

8/10

i love this album, and i don't have much bad to say about it.  It's an acquired taste, and the only reason i personally don't score it higher is because i feel like they're progressed so much over the years, that they can do even better than this.  This is a band that i predict will explode over the next year or two