Review: The Story Changes – This Is Your Moment

Josh reviews The Story Changes’ This Is Your Moment.

Artist Name: The Story Changes
Album Name: This Is Your Moment
Year: 2011
Genre: Rock/Pop Rock
Label: I Am Shark

The Story Changes features Hawthorne Heights touring guitarist, Mark McMillon, on vocals and guitars, and Poppy smashing away on the drums. On their latest EP, This Is Your Moment, TSC have thrown away the rulebook and written songs based on what sounds good – not trends or genre expectations.

Throughout This Is Your Moment, I’m left impressed by the band’s versatility, as every song drifts into a different direction from the previous one. The opening track ‘Tidal Wave’ kicks off with a subtle hint of Rise Against’s punk anthemic influence (it reminded me quite a bit of ‘Ready to Fall’ from RA’s 2006 album, The Sufferer & the Witness, to be honest), whilst the second song ‘How Long’ is your more stereotypical straight-forward pop rock single, bursting with artificial hooks and manufactured melodies. After these two openers, ‘Nights Collide’ jams its way into your senses with a more hard rock approach, and finally, ‘Breed’ ends off the EP drenched in a tone of post-punk.

Is the EP fun? Yes. Would it inspire me to check out their next album? Sure. This Is Your Moment is over fairly quickly (I did expect another track or 2, even if it is an EP), but it surely isn’t lacking in quality.

Best Tracks: ‘Tidal Wave’ and ‘Breed’

72/100

- Josh Smith
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