The Getaway Plan – Other Voices, Other Rooms
Other Voices, Other Rooms – The Getaway Plan
by Aidan Roberts
Now this is to be taken with a grain of salt, but according to Wikipedia this band’s sound as “a case of Thrice meets Jeff Buckley meets Underoath”. In a way this says it all. Terms like post-punk and post-hardcore are misleading at best, as the wailing adolescence of this music is devoid of any hardness or punk credibility – it all feels like an exercise in thematic safety rather than true expression. Single Streetlight is the opening sermon, with Matthew Wright’s lock-jawed crooning introducing us to a highly fabricated world of tortured minds and hearts. There’s a confusion of vowels and syllables in this vocal style that has always given me the creeps and is in full effect here. The band may rock hard, but the clean production reduces it all to a mass of fuzzy, clinical guitars and swirling backgrounds courtesy of veteran Florida producer James Paul Wisner. This is a pristine, commercial affair squarely aimed at a flaky audience. It’s no fun to be a cynic, but this stuff really is like a silk tent in a blizzard.
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