Hey this Music No One Likes with a review of the new Issues album;

Headspace. Issues is a metalcore band featuring members from Los

Angeles, California and Atlanta, Georgia. The current line-up

consists of two vocalists, Tyler Carter on cleans and Michael

Bohn on unclean vocals, however in this new album Michael starts

doing partial cleans. Both vocalists are from an older band, Woe

Is Me which is currently broken up. The band also consists of

Skyler Acord on bass, AJ Rebello on guitar, Josh Manuel on drums,

and Ty Acord on electronics. Headspace is a very expirimental

album, Michael has never done cleans before and they sound very

good on this album. And it’s not only Michael that expiriments

vocals, Syler’s screams can be heard in Blue Wall. Besides vocal

wise expirimentation, there is quite a lot of musical

expirimentation. In Yung & Dum, they feature a country singer by

the name of Jon Langston and the song is very country influenced

as if features many twangy sounds. Another example of genre mixing

is in Coma. It feels very poppy and has almost no screaming in it.

This song is also an amazing example of how amazing Michael Bohn

can do cleans and screams as he sings throughout most of the song

and then it’s such a quick turn into dirty vocals yet it still

flows well. And Rank Rider and Lost-n-Found (On A Roll) are very

jazz and soul influenced. Lyrics are also heavily influenced by

member’s experiences in life and on the world. Songs like Blue

Wall are about police brutality and Someone Who Does are about

divorce and family matters. Michael’s screams on Blue Wall are so

powerful and gritty and just give you a shot of adrenaline while

Tyler’s smooth voice on Someone Who Does makes you heart ache.

Now although this is all great, the album is not perfect. Issues’

self-titled album was a master piece in my opinion, it was just

amazing from start to finish and there’s no song that I’d be bored

of or want to skip over. However in Headspace there are some kind

of rough patches. Headspace is a little too expirimental for my

taste. Though it offers many great songs it’s not perfect. Some

songs feel very reptitive with the same beat over and over such as

Home Soon and it just doesn’t feel very much like their signature

sound. This album is lacking a kind of “rap” aspect I guess you

could call it. Such as in Life of a Nine and Stingray Affliction

where Tyler “raps”. I also can barely hear Ty’s mixing, the only

scratches I can ever really hear are in Flojo. And my last thing

I want to say is, Tyler. Tyler Carter is an incredibley talented

singer but dear god, he takes over this album. Michael finally

starts doing cleans which are incredible but Tyler sings for most

of every song. This is just my opinion but I’d really like to see

a little more vocal sharing in Issues because Tyler just

completely took control of this album. Overall, Headspace is a

very solid album with lots of fun memorable songs but a few

mediocre songs. The instrumentation and mixing is incredible and

the vocals are great too. However it is a huge departure from the

older Issues’ style and sound and I personally do not like that

all that much but I understand if otherss do.

Overall Score: Strong 6/10

Favorite Track: Lost-n-Found (On A Roll)

Least Favorite Track: Home Soon