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Evanescence’s fans, this album takes a
180 on its music direction compare to the first two albums. There’s still some
remembrance of “Fallen” and “The Open Door” in there, but the rest of the songs
brings out a whole new direction.
Songs like “Erase This”, “Sick” and
“Never Go Back” brings out the inner Nu Metal vibe in Evanescence. “Oceans”,
“The Change”, “The Other Side” and “End of the Dream” feels more adult rock
contemporary.
At the end of the album however, the
last track “Swimming Home” is nothing like her usual rock songs – with its slow
mellow lullaby type of melody, this song will definitely catch evanescence fans
off guard.
It seems like by having songs that sound
similar to “Fallen” and “The Open Door” at the beginning and transitioning the
music to a whole new direction towards the end shows that they are moving on
from their musical beginnings into something new for them to adventure on.
Lyrically however, it does fall back a
bit. There are constant repeated messages within the lyrics including “Made of
Stone” with “It’s never enough for you, baby…/I’m all out of love for you,
baby…/” and The Change with “Can you hear me?/Can you hear me?/Say it’s
over/Yes it’s over.”
There are good lyrical moments from “My
Heart is Broken” with its lyrics of “My heart is broken/Sweet sleep, my dark
angel/Deliver us from sorrows hold/ (cover my heart) and “End of the Dream”
with “As much as it hurts, ain’t it wonderful to feel? /so go on and break your
wings/Follow your heart till it bleeds/As we run towards the end of the
dreams.”
When it comes to Amy Lee’s vocals, Lee
should have made more songs like “Lost in Paradise” and “What You Want” where
it channels her voice full of more raw and emotion.
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