Novus Ordo
2007
Mistakes
About This Album
The scene proliferates with bands gleefully setting out to destroy all vestiges of genre distinctions. It's all just music, they declare with delight, and prove it with every CD they record. A Hero from a Thousand Paces are the latest addition to this club of vandals, arising phoenix-like from the ashes of the Pennyroyals, and ribbons of their punk past are evident within. But Hero are no punk band, punk is merely just one of the dozen or so styles that they garb their sound in, the predominate one being pop. Metal, hard rock, classic rock, prog rock, emo, punk rock, post-punk, a flicker of singer/songwriter, a sprinkling of glam, a touch of classical, well, you get the idea. Basically, the last 35 years of rock and pop can be found somewhere within Mistakes, all the while never actually evoking a single actual band from any of those genres. "Aftermath," for instance folds a hard rock riff around punk guitar attacks, tosses an effervescent keyboard run overhead, and throws a pop vocal on top. There's sparkling piano work on "Semantics" and "It's Not Over," a lush and languorous atmosphere swirls around the verses of "She'll Pay for Me in Singles," a perfect pop chorus sits pretty on the "Bold and the Beautiful," and the catchiest of melodies is heard on "Close Your Eyes.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4 and 5)

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