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• Artist: New Year's Day
• Album: My Dear
• Label: TVT
• Year of Release: 2007
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• Reviewed by: mschmitt on 2007-06-19

I would never, ever, for any amount of money, date a post-punk emo rocker. After apparently latching themselves to you and enveloping their whole life around yours, something awful always happens. This leads to me dumping them, or possibly dying. They then make me into the subject for anywhere from one song to an entire album, packaged and ready for thousands of similarly distressed fans to listen and relate to. It’s simply not worth it. Either that, or the poor people in New Year’s Day are just dating too many jerks. Not that they should stop—without horribly abusive love interests the Orange County pop-punk’s debut full-length album My Dear would be a pile of ho-hummery. That is, if you don’t think it is already. Annoyingly passive (“Take what you want from me”), New Year’s Day is playing an overused style (sorry—Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco, Boys Like Girls, My Chemical Romance, The Academy Is…, Something Corporate, Paramore, The All American Rejects, and Avril Lavigne were here first). Fans of previously mentioned acts may take to New Year’s Day’s oh-why-me mentality like soccer moms to mini-vans, but that is where My Dear’s possible fan-base ends. Tracks like “Sunrise Sunset” (“I’ll always have my sunset”), “My Dear” (“Desperate and destitute/These seconds feel like lifetimes without you”), and “Saying Goodbye (“I’m not selfish, I’m just being ignored”) are just too mopey to enjoy the cookie-cutter post-punk instrumentals. A great release for depressed teenagers (try “Razor” first!) or fans of this brand of post-punk emo-pop (unless you find it a rip-off of everyone else), New Year’s Day and My Dear are laughable at best and annoying at worst. In their own words on “You’ll Only Make It Worse”: “Empty words can’t fix a broken heart.”

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