{"id":8624,"date":"2017-04-13T11:20:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altwire.net\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2023-12-06T06:38:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T11:38:32","slug":"album-review-falling-in-reverse-releases-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/album-review-falling-in-reverse-releases-coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"[Album Review] Falling In Reverse releases &#8220;Coming Home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke (formerly of Escape The Fate)\u00a0taught himself to play guitar with Blink-182 and Green Day songs while rapping along to <a href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/album-review-eminem-revival\/\">Eminem<\/a> and Dr. Dre. He skipped school and went to shows, doing whatever it took to make a life outside of the hardships of his upbringing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Retour \u00e0 la maison<\/em> is the album Radke always wanted to make. Unfortunately, his on\u00a0and off-stage\u00a0antics have landed him in trouble on more occasions than I&#8217;d like to count. He channels\u00a0a lot of this energy into the tracks on this\u00a0album.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u00a0begins with\u00a0a space-rockish title track. The track is something you might expect from a Starset single, complete with voiceovers that discuss communications and self-destruct systems.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Falling In Reverse - &quot;Coming Home&quot;\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3QB4VnUOUA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This space-rock vibe carries on throughout the album, with pretty, polished synths overlaying the raunchy guitars and fast, steady drums. We don&#8217;t hear the normal heavy guitars and double-pedal drums until the later tracks in the album, and the fast rock-rapping we&#8217;ve seen on past Falling In Reverse albums is almost non-existent.<\/p>\n<p>The earlier tracks on the album seem to want to tell a story: Growing older, losing friends and loves, feeling out of place, getting in trouble. Towards the end of the album, whatever story was being told seems to have been abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><em>Retour \u00e0 la maison<\/em> has been advertised as the bands \u201cmature\u201d album. Sonically, the album is tight: The instrumentation is incredibly clean, with heavy layers of production and heavy synths. The maturity of the album helps to overshadow the douchebag-rockstar persona and illegal antics that have seemed to follow Radke since his early days with Escape The Fate.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrically, the highlight of this album is the second to last track, \u201cI Don&#8217;t Mind.\u201d The verses show a vulnerable Radke saying that he&#8217;s worried about turning into his mother. His addictions are similar to hers, and at one point, he admits that he&#8217;s morally unjust and will always be remembered for his antics and discretions rather than the good he&#8217;s done and the positive actions he makes. Unfortunately, the blandness of the chorus drags down the emotion of the verses.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as other reviews have pointed out, most of the lyrical aspect of the album really are the downfall. Radke has such a distinguishable voice, and when he nails a good lyric I want to jump up and shout, but a lot what he uses on this album seems to repeat the angry \u201cI hate my friends\u201d or \u201cI hate the world\u201d mantra. He uses a wide vocal range, but when he goes into his pitched screams, the cleanliness of the music seems to dissipate.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I enjoyed the album. The tight-knit instrumentals and heavy, produced synths work well to show how the band has grown and matured since their earlier albums, although there&#8217;s still improvements to be made.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, if <em>Retour \u00e0 la maison<\/em> is the album Ronnie Radke dreamed about making as a kid, I would say it was worth the wait.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke (formerly of Escape The Fate)\u00a0taught himself to play guitar with Blink-182 and &#8230; <a title=\"[Album Review] Falling In Reverse releases &#8220;Coming Home&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/album-review-falling-in-reverse-releases-coming-home\/\" aria-label=\"More on [Album Review] Falling In Reverse releases &#8220;Coming Home&#8221;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":8633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1608,726,79,725,36,727],"class_list":["post-8624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-album-reviews","tag-coming-home","tag-escape-the-fate","tag-falling-in-reverse","tag-notables","tag-ronnie-radke","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}