{"id":18860,"date":"2018-06-01T07:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T13:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/?p=18860"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T20:24:08","slug":"bad-frequencies-ring-familiar-hawthorne-heights-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/2018\/06\/bad-frequencies-ring-familiar-hawthorne-heights-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Frequencies Ring Familiar – Hawthorne Heights Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost two decades after their debut, Dayton, Ohio\u2019s Hawthorne Heights continue to live up to their reputation as s one of the seminal bands of the emo-rock genre. Lead vocalist and frontman JT Woodruff says <\/span>Bad Frequencies<\/span><\/i><\/a> (their first release as a band in almost 3 years) \u201cis about going back to some of your favorite times in life and using those memories to push you forward.\u201d It\u2019s a compilation of undoubtedly new yet strikingly familiar emo-rock anthems akin to the ones that kept the class of 2007 company in high school.<\/span><\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cwhen you get a little older, past high school and college, people can get bogged down by everyday life. They get stressed out, they\u2019ve got a lot of responsibilities, and it\u2019s not as much fun as when you were just hanging out with friends and stuff. Our way of showing that it can still be fun was to go back and do a little bit of a nod to some stuff that we wrote a long time ago that impacted people and impacted us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The direct lyrical ties between <\/span>Bad Frequencies<\/span><\/i> and Hawthorne Heights\u2019 debut full-length <\/span>Silence in Black and White<\/span><\/i> (2004) are clear in \u201cPink Hearts,\u201d which begins with a soaring mid 2000\u2019s anthem-rock groove that drops into a verse immediately familiar to longtime fans of the band: \u201cYou know you already killed me, you know you killed me well.\u201d It calls on the hit chorus \u201cYou know you do, you kill me well, you like it too and I can tell\u201d from their best-known track \u201cOhio is For Lovers<\/a>.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a way to show that everything still can be fun,\u201d Woodruff says. \u201cYou just gotta allow yourself the right mindset to have fun.\u201d The new release definitely feels fun, with catchy melodies and solid modern production quality mixed with just the right amount of nostalgia and melancholy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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