Bring Me The Horizon Music Analysis

On September 11, 2015, British band, Bring Me The Horizon, released their fifth, most audacious, studio album: That's the Spirit.

Each album, BMTH has had this progression of making their music less and less aggressive and loud, but in this new album, they have completely left the metalcore genre their previous three were, for a much more arena rock, pop, electronic and indie like album. This is immediately proven with their first track "Doomed," which is very layered at the beginning, but then goes into this vibe that is meant seem to confuse the listener. This is all executed perfectly, with Oli Sykes (the lead singer) adding such beautiful vocals to the song. The only downfall of the song is that his hook is rather annoying with it being sung so many times, over and over.

Now there are times where the hook is actually rather great ("Happy Song"), but with songs like in "True Friends," it really isn't needed to be over sung. This overuse of hooks rather holds the songs back a little, as they could add either more lyrics or maybe even more rifts or breakdowns. Still, some songs actually start off with this tiresome hooks, only to actually put in one that not only fits, but rather sounds better than the other three or four times sang.

For example, in the song "Avalanche," the hook is overplayed for at least three fourths of the song. What would've been best for this particular song would've been to get rid of all the hooks, but keeping the last one.

Probably the highlight of the whole album is the well-polished and very organized production of songs. Like in "Happy Song," they are able to switch from this rather grungy like sound, to a much more heavier rock and metal sound to this quick electronic sound before finishing with probably their most aggressive and hard hitting musical sound on the whole