Band: Madina Lake
Album: Attics To Eden
Released: 2009
Reviewer: Colgate
Rating: 4.5/5
We have all heard of twins starting bands: Benji and Joel, Lisa and Jess (aka Veronica and Veronica). Well, there is another band that you can add to the list of twins in a band: Madina Lake. But these twins are no ordinary twins; if you are an avid Fear Factor spectator, you may remember a twin’s episode. Nathan and Matt Leone won Twin Fear Factor and put their US$50,000 towards Madina Lake making an EP.
Madina Lake comes to you straight out of Chicago, Illinois. The twins, Nathan (vox) and Matt (Bass), joined forces with guitarist and backup vocalist Mateo Camargo and drummer Dan Torelli. Madina Lake uses to be 2 separate bands; the twins were in a band called The Blank Theory, while Mateo and Dan were in another band Reforma. These guys then joined the ranks of bands such as Velvet Revolver and Audioslave, where they broke up the bands that they were originally in and morphed into the band that you have today.
Madina Lakes sound is somewhat different to what the mainstreamers may be used to and definitely different to the other bands on the Roadrunner Record Label (Roadrunner brings you such bands as Slipknot, Fear Factory, Sepultura and Within Temptation). Their sound is more of an electro pop punk feel, the use of distorted guitars, fast drumming and impressive lyrics really will get you into this band.
Madina Lake have only released two full studio albums: From Them, Through Us. To You was released in 2007. Even though this was their first studio album, the sound that you get makes these guys sound like seasoned veterans, so it was with that album under my belt that I couldn’t wait for album number two to finally come out.
Two years later and the wait was finally over. Like the boys from Green Day, I was expecting big things from their second album Attics to Eden but the pop punk sound that their first album produced, just needed to be recreated and morphed in this album for me to absolutely love it.
Attics to Eden has shown that the band has matured in the two years between albums, even going as far as to say that their lyrics are a “psychological refuge from today’s intense fast paced world”, but were they right?
With lyrics like that in the song Never Take Us Alive, maybe they have, I like what I am hearing so it’s all-good, and I am pretty sure that all you readers/ listeners out their will enjoy this album.
Songs I enjoyed on this album include; Never Take Us Alive, Criminals, and Never Walk alone.
Madina Lake’s Attics to Eden, is a great album and would suit those of you out there that are into Lost Prophets, H.I.M, and Cute is What We Aim For.
Get Attics To Eden from your great music dealers in NZ. INCLUDING THE WAREHOUSE! That’s right, they finally grew balls and bought in decent music, well decent by my standards ☺