Breaching Vista ‎– Vera City CD

Breaching Vista ‎– Vera City CD

Being on stage and playing our music is what we love doing. Not everyone will love it, but we know that some do. There's a rewarding feeling when connecting with fans, and it means the world to us to have someone appreciate what we've created...However large or small the impact may be, that is amazing! In the grand scheme of things, it s the handshakes, high fives, smiles, laughs and good times that mean the most. It s all just rock n roll at the end of the day. This is why we love doing what we do. John Maksym, vocalist and guitarist. I have to start this review by saying that I like this band, not necessarily for their music, but for their attitude. There are some real nasty, undeserving SOBs out there in the music world and, while I totally get that grace is a hard virtue to master, this four-piece pop rock outfit from Kitchener can teach everyone a thing or two about being cool with who you are, what you do, and how lucky you are to be doing what you want to do, regardless of what the cynics have to say. This alone makes their Hedley-meets-Simple Plan sound all the more tolerable to me. Following an extremely well received debut EP and four years in the making, Breaching Vista s first full length album, Vera City, has finally been released. It opens up with We Are the Way , a minute and a half instrumental that flows seamlessly into the next track entitled Sleep . The third track, Nervous , begins after a fraction of a second of silence as if still part of Sleep , Jesus-of-Suburbia-style. I can picture Nervous being the title track to a teen drama, which can be good or bad depending on whether you re the teen living vicariously through impractical yet deeply relatable content, or old enough to have moved on from the incessant melodramatics of inexperienced love. This and the following track, Forgive You , together represent your typical immature relationship (not only in spirit but in length), moving quickly and indecisively through the apprehension, euphoria, and disappointment we are all so familiar with. In fact, this whole album is pretty much made for teens (and preteens too I guess, I can t really tell the difference anymore anyway), who are luckily within the most lucrative consumer demographic in the industry. From the perspective of my fourteen year old self, who paid more attention to her emotional reaction to the faces and ideas behind music than the actual music itself the very means by which nineties boy bands stayed afloat on radio airwaves Vera City works. Better yet, given what most modern boy bands like Breaching Vista are releasing, the music on Vera City is not at all hacked to death with effects and the dreaded robotic tones of auto-tune. For the latter alone, I am grateful. They keep it simple, throwing in a touch of punk here and a touch of acoustic there, and Billy The Kid makes a guest appearance on Letters , her airy vocals sweetly complimenting the already sentimental tone of the song. Parents will be glad to know Breaching Vista s looks and lyrics are clean as a whistle and, according to Facebook research, some moms might even dig a tune or two themselves. I mean, even the poppiest rock bands out there have one song or member that would scare anyone over 40, but not these guys. Trust me, I looked everywhere. Clean. As. A. Whistle. It s the kind of album that effectively introduces young girls to rock music without tainting their view of life anymore than Degrassi or Gossip Girl already does. Lithium Magazine